Inflammation plays a crucial role in the development of various diseases, including cancer, allergic diseases, such as asthma, and cardiovascular diseases, such as atherosclerosis and heart failure.

Recent research points to the potential utility of a familiar sounding foe–herpes virus–in the fight against cancer.

Recent research points to the potential utility of a familiar sounding foe–herpes virus–in the fight against cancer.The idea: the virus has evolved to ...

Lipid membranes, which form the outer layer of cells, can be engineered to influence cellular functions. For example, ...

The complex interactions between the nervous and immune systems are pivotal in both health and disease, but the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying ...

A team identified herpes virus saimiri, which infects the T cells of squirrel monkeys, as a source of proteins that activate pathways in T cells that are needed to promote T cell survival.

Defects in the signalling pathways associated with these external signals provide the basis for developmental abnormalities, hypertrophy, degeneration, cell transformation and metastasis.

Tumor cells in colorectal cancer exploit an important signaling pathway that normally controls embryo development.

An unprecedented international effort to decode how cells manage the transport of chemical substances has culminated in four ...

PME-1 is a protein that modifies other proteins by removing methyl groups, but high levels of PME-1 are observed in some diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cancer.

Taste, pain, or response to stress—nearly all essential functions in the human body are regulated by molecular switches ...

Thetis cells, a class of immune cells first described in 2022, play an essential and previously unknown role in suppressing inflammatory responses to food, a new study finds.