Aug. 11, 2023 —Specific receptors in the ears of mosquitoes have been revealed to modulate their hearing, finds a new study. Scientists say, this discovery could help develop new insecticides and control the spread ...
Aug. 11, 2023 —The skin, hair and eye color of more than eight billion humans is determined by the light-absorbing pigment known as melanin. New research has identified 135 new genes associated with ...
Aug. 11, 2023 —An experimental malaria vaccine appears safe and promotes an immune response in African infants, one of the groups most vulnerable to severe malaria ...
Aug. 11, 2023 —Scientists have developed a synthetic extracellular matrix (ECM) that can support the growth of a mini endometrium in a dish for at least two weeks. The endometrium -- the mucosal lining of the ...
Aug. 11, 2023 —Scientists discovered that anti-CTLA-4 immunotherapy extended the lives of mice with glioblastoma by causing specialized CD4+ T immune cells to 1) infiltrate the brain and 2) tell brain-resident ...
Aug. 11, 2023 —Identification of risk factors for Parkinson's disease (PD) is essential for early diagnosis. Dating back to the 1920s, Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism -- an umbrella term that refers to motor ...
Aug. 10, 2023 —Scientists can finally hunt down a harmful kind of human T cell. Immune cells called ex-T regulatory cells (exTregs) tend to be rare in the body and, so far, impossible to detect in human samples. A ...
Aug. 9, 2023 —Researchers have designed a probiotic to suppress autoimmunity in the brain, which occurs when the immune system attacks the cells of the central nervous ...
Aug. 10, 2023 —The best heart rate for burning fat differs for each individual and often does not align with the 'fat burning zone' on commercial exercise machines, researchers report. Instead, the researchers ...
Aug. 10, 2023 —Sugar-coated proteins called mucins are implicated in many diseases, including cancer. A team has now bioengineered an enzyme-based scissors that selectively cuts mucins off cancer cells, removing ...
