A Moffitt Cancer Center researcher has introduced a new model that addresses one of biology's most fundamental questions: How ...

Our immune systems function by employing two separate responses when in contact with disease. The first is the innate immune system, which aids in monitoring for infection throughout the body. Innate ...

How do our genes determine our appearance and our susceptibility to disease? This question is central to biomedical research, ...

Tiny tweaks in DNA folding can have big effects. A study from Umeå University shows that even the most subtle changes in DNA's shape have an important influence on gene activity and energy production.

The immune system faces a delicate balancing act: it must be aggressive enough to fight infections and cancer, yet restrained enough to avoid attacking the body's own tissues. More than two decades ...

For decades, depression has been explained to patients as a “chemical imbalance” in the brain, a vague phrase that never ...

Until now, doctors knew hepatic stellate cells mainly as drivers of liver fibrosis. The actual functions of this cell type have hardly been studied to date. Researchers have now determined that ...

In a new study published in Genes & Development, research led by Dr. Lila Allou at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) in London and Professor Stefan Mundlos at the Max Planck Institute for ...

Scientists have identified two specific types of brain cells that behave differently in people with depression, offering a ...

In people with Type 1 diabetes (T1D), the immune system shuts down the body's ability to make the hormone insulin, ...