During Earth’s early days, bacteria developed a self-destruct strategy for detecting and destroying phages before they’re able to take over the cell’s machinery. While this does wonders for our immune ...

Plants undergo distinct developmental phases during their life cycles, including embryogenesis, juvenile vegetative growth, adult vegetative growth, and eventually, reproduction (Huijser and Schmid, ...

Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center have uncovered a new mechanism by which the body’s immune system responds to viral infections, a finding that can potentially be harnessed to attack cancer. The ...

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Here we will look at and discuss some bold predictions for the game between the Buccaneers and the Saints in Week 8 of the 2025 NFL season. The Buccaneers (5-2) travel to Caesars Superdome on Sunday ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A few months ago, my younger daughter, Darby, and I were settling into our seats at the local AMC. As the previews ...

If you're playing an RPG, at some point you'll likely have to fight some battles repeatedly in the name of leveling up. It's not exciting or luxurious, but farming comes with the territory. In Pokémon ...

A model showing proteins called death fold domains (green) telling a caspase enzyme (blue) to kill the cell after it has been compromised by pathogens. The immune system has a tough job: When a tiny ...

LIVE: Penn State Loses Without James Franklin! — Coordinators, Game Plan Self Destruct vs. Iowa Penn State blew an 11-point second-half lead to Iowa. We’re breaking down exactly how it unraveled: ...

Scientists at University of California, San Diego (UCSD), have developed a new approach to destroying cancer stem cells (CSCs)—the hard-to-find cells that help cancers spread, come back after ...

The immune system has a tough job: When a tiny virus invades one of our cells, that cell must detect it and, within minutes, decide what to do. If the cell quickly self-destructs, that will prevent ...