Recent research on human evolution suggests that the extinction of our Neanderthal cousins may have been hastened by ...

In 2015, Bluestone led a small clinical trial to isolate and grow Tregs from diabetes patients and then reinfuse the cells ...

The microbiome-the trillions of bacteria, viruses, and fungi that live quietly in our body-plays a crucial role in shaping ...

Cell physiology is the study of the functional properties of cells, the basic units of life, and encompasses the investigation of processes such as metabolism, signal transduction, gene expression, ...

The team succeeded in turning T cells from mice suffering autoimmune diseases into stable regulatory T cells with a special ...

A Czech scientist has contributed to understanding the function of the thymus—the training center of the immune system. T ...

The prize honored discoveries that defined peripheral immune tolerance through regulatory T cells (Tregs) and the FOXP3 gene, ...

This story has been updated. The human immune system is our body’s primary line of defense against harmful microbes, viruses and other invaders—but that defense line can sometimes run amok and attack ...

Even for a newly minted Nobel laureate, downtime is hard to find. | Even for a newly minted Nobel laureate, downtime is hard ...

A research team led by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and collaborating with the Biomedical Research ...

Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) are a new type of pluripotent stem cells first generated in 2006 by Kyoto University Professor Yamanaka Shinya. Human iPS cells can be made from skin or ...