The blood‐testis barrier (BTB) is one of the most specialised barriers in the body, crucial for establishing a protected microenvironment for spermatogenesis. Comprised predominantly of tight ...

Scientists at Stanford University have uncovered a novel physical mechanism that breast cancer cells use to break out and become invasive. They observed that in addition to established chemical ...

Chinese researchers recently reported a method for improving cancer immunotherapy efficacy by giving T cells—the body's cancer- and infection-fighting white cells—a rest. Cancer immunotherapies such ...

Up to now, the use of models to research the barrier that separates the circulatory from the nervous system has proven to be either limited or extremely complicated. Researchers have now developed a ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown barrier that separates the bloodstream from smelling cells in the upper airway of mice. But this barrier ends up keeping some of the larger molecules of ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and AlveoliX have developed the first human ‘lung-on-chip’ model using stem cells taken from only one person.

Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapies are relatively new treatments for patients with heavily pretreated hematologic malignancies. Although these innovative therapies can offer ...