One of this year's coveted Lasker Awards has gone to Zhijian "James" Chen, a scientist behind a key immune-system discovery.

Through a process called phagocytosis, the amoeba encloses the yeast cell with its membrane and draws it inside. Specialized plasma membrane proteins in the amoeba (in green) are involved in this ...

Study identified glycosylasparaginase on Aspergillus fumigatus spores. This enzyme weakens immunity, allowing the mold to ...

Proper storage and shipping conditions for cell and gene therapy products are crucial for the design, repeatability, and ...

“Numerous phagocytosis checkpoints and ‘do not eat me’ signals (i.e., CD47, CD24, MHC-I, PD-L1, STC1, and GD2) have recently been recognized as potential therapeutic targets.” As discussed in this ...

Laugh and learn along with TAG24 with our Fun Fact of the Day for Tuesday, September 17, 2024. What bizarre or interesting ...

If you’re pregnant or currently breastfeeding, you may wonder what might happen to your breasts when you stop breastfeeding.

Carisma Therapeutics has gone public, entered a broad collaboration with Moderna, and ceased development of its original ...

The mold Aspergillus fumigatus produces an enzyme on the surface of its spores with which it can attenuate the human immune ...

Optimizing iPSC differentiation significantly improves in vitro Alzheimer's disease models, leading to more accurate and ...

Such studies that have examined granulocyte function in concentrates focused on the assessment of viability, chemotaxis, phagocytosis and oxidative burst and showed that granulocyte colony ...