Researchers at University College Dublin have discovered a previously unknown "courier system" that cells use to deliver ...

Endogenous Retroviruses (ERVs), relics from ancient viral infections, form a significant part of vertebrate genomes, including humans, where they constitute ...

A protein that helps cancer cells hide from the immune system may have a critical weakness, according to research that could ...

Infiltration of the tumor microenvironment (TME) with cytotoxic T cells (CTLs) which recognize tumor-associated antigens (TAAs and TSAs) is required for the clinical efficacy of immunotherapy and for ...

Recently, a research team led by Professor Zhengping Xu of Zhejiang University School of Medicine and its affiliated Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital published a paper in Science Bulletin titled ...

The researchers used lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to deliver cyclic GMP-AMP (cGAMP) synthase (cGAS) mRNA to cancer cells. This results in production of the endogenous stimulator of interferon genes ...

Plant cells do not easily abandon their mature identity. In apple, that transformation is especially important because somatic embryogenesis underpins ...

Antibodies have transformed the way physicians treat patients with different pathologies. The next generation of monoclonal ...

In recent years, we have come to appreciate that loss or dysfunction of insulin-producing islet beta cells underlies virtually all major forms of diabetes mellitus. In type 1 diabetes, beta cells ...