After a decade-long quest to fill a major gap in basic biology, UChicago scientists have built a complete map of how cells ...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Lung macrophages play a pivotal role in diseases like idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Two types of macrophages — the white blood cells that defend the body by killing microbes, ...
New research combines two powerful imaging techniques to study the complete structure of a common aGPCR, including how its long and complex extracellular region interacts with the transmembrane region ...
Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy—CAR T for short—has been a major advance in treating blood cancers like leukemia and ...
A longstanding mystery in mosquito biology has been solved, opening a potential new path for controlling mosquitoes and the ...
What is the Cnpy1 protein? New research reveals how the Canopy1 protein allows vomeronasal neurons to survive high ER-stress.
A new CAR T-cell therapy attacks supportive cells in the tumor microenvironment that bear the surface protein, uPAR.
What is the TREM-1 receptor? A new review explores TREM-1's role in sepsis, rheumatoid arthritis, and neuroinflammation.
Researchers have built DNA-based nanodevices that can identify cancer cells, latch onto them, and deliver drugs or ...