A fundamental theory about how our thymus educates our immune police appears to be wrong, scientists say. The finding provides more insight into immunity that could one day enable a new approach to ...

CD8 + T-cell memory constitutes an important ‘record’ of adaptive immune responses to intracellular pathogens, poised to mount more robust and efficient pathogen clearance upon re-encounter. Central ...

1 Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada 2 Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 3 ...

T. Tobe et al., "An extensive repertoire of type III secretion effectors in Escherichia coli O157 and the role of lambdoid phages in their dissemination," Proc Nat Acad Sci, 103:14941-6, 2006. (Cited ...

When a virus enters the body, it is picked up by certain cells of the immune system. They transport the virus to the lymph nodes where they present its fragments, known as antigens, to CD8+ T cells ...

T cells experience different mechanical signals in different tissues. Researchers have engineered a tissue-mimicking hydrogel model to show that more elastic tissues induce T cells to become ...

Pfizer has teamed up with Effector Therapeutics to develop small molecule inhibitors of eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (eIF4E). Effector is set to receive $15 million upfront to work on drugs against ...

U.S. crude oil futures traded higher by over 1% on Tuesday. Investors, meanwhile, focused on some notable insider trades. When insiders purchase or sell shares, it indicates their confidence or ...

The virulence of a rice-wrecking fungus — and deployment of ninja-like proteins that help it escape detection by muffling an immune system’s alarm bells — relies on genetic decoding quirks that could ...

An end effector – or end-of-arm-tooling (EOAT) – is a peripheral device that attaches to a robot’s wrist. The end effector allows the robot to interact with its task. Most end effectors are mechanical ...