This story is one in a series marking International Women and Girls in Science Day. Join us as we celebrate some laboratory leaders taking research to new heights. As an assistant professor of ...

When a transplanted organ arrives, it’s like a controlled burn that risks becoming a wildfire. The body’s innate immune system senses damage signals, like heat shock proteins (HSP70), and sounds the ...

In a recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers reviewed selected acute-phase proteins concerning their production, structure, and function. The advent of severe acute ...

Human interleukin-26 (IL-26) is linked to intestinal inflammation and is bactericidal in vitro. This study uses zebrafish as ...

The immune system can work in two ways: the innate immune system reacts to any foreign invaders that are identified by immune cells that look for such pathogens; but the acquired or adaptive immune ...

Pegylated liposomal doxorubicin and carboplatin versus paclitaxel and carboplatin as first-line treatment for Chinese patients with ovarian cancer: A multi-center, randomized, open-label trial. This ...

Malaria-induced innate immune modulation of an atypical cellular population plays a substantial role in driving and maintaining immunity against malaria, a new study from scientists at Stanford ...

Different pathways within the cell are activated or silenced dependent on the external signals acting on a cell. One such pathway includes the stimulator of interferon genes (STING) pathway which acts ...