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Around 5,000 Americans are diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) each year. About half of patients die within 14 ...

Scientists have found a way to supercharge the immune system’s T cells by blocking a protein called Ant2, essentially rewiring how these cells generate energy. This metabolic reprogramming makes them ...

We humans have recently evolved a new kind of weapon that tilts the constant mortal warfare between us and dangerous microbes ...

Researchers at the University of Granada and Mount Sinai Hospital in New York have developed a luminescent probe, called GLed ...

Morning sickness is an evolved immune response that helps protect both mother and foetus. UCLA researchers found that nausea, ...

Zero-trust security mirrors biology’s best defenses. By applying least privilege, businesses can scale, stay resilient and ...

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“Much like a scorpion uses toxin components of its venom to target and kill its prey, we’re using chlorotoxin to direct the T cells to target the tumor cells,” Michael Barish, PhD, chair of the ...

When María Branyas Morera passed away in August 2024, she was 117 years and 168 days old, the planet’s oldest person living ...

What if bacteria held the keys to a part of our own immunity? For several years, some scientists have been exploring ...