A collaborative effort led by Professor Wanli Liu 's team at Tsinghua University has uncovered a sophisticated mechanism by which keratinocytes, the predominant cell type in the skin's epidermis, ...

The skin is far more than a simple physical barrier. These two researches address a fundamental question in immunology: How does a localized skin ...

Food allergies are serious and, for some, potentially deadly. And yet, despite decades of research into allergies and what causes them, very little is known about why the vast majority of people are ...

The searchers are known as regulatory T cells – or Tregs. They are the immune system’s peacekeepers, scanning food for these ...

Survival in myeloma is clearly being prolonged,” says Mikhael. “Whereas historically, we saw a greater impact in younger ...

Wolves living inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone show genetic and immune-system signals that researchers say may be linked ...

T cell activation—the process by which these key immune defenders recognize threats and mobilize against them—depends on exquisitely timed molecular signals. Now researchers have captured one of the ...

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease characterized by the immune-mediated destruction of pancreatic B cells. While autoreactive T cells are key ...

A critically ill 33-year-old man survived an almost unimaginable scenario—living for 48 hours without lungs—thanks to a groundbreaking surgical approach. After a severe flu-triggered infection ...

Peeler Jr. College of Veterinary Medicine (HPCVM) at Clemson University recently welcomed members of its inaugural class during an Accepted Students Day on the South ...

Mind and Body Strategies for Success focuses on a familiar challenge in veterinary medicine: maintaining proper nutrition during long, unpredict ...