As people age, their immune system function declines. T cell populations become smaller and can't react to pathogens as ...

Jonas Salk quietly built the polio vaccine through rigorous, methodical work in Pittsburgh: treating patients, refinin ...

As the immune system weakens with age, researchers have found a way to temporarily boost its function by reprogramming liver cells to support T-cell development.

Programmable CRISPR tools are turning stem cell biology into something closer to software engineering, shrinking ...

SEATTLE – April 12, 2017 – Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have developed biodegradable nanoparticles that can be used to genetically program immune cells to recognize and ...

I attended the Global Wellness Summit in Dubai (my 13th consecutive, I think), which focused on transformative technologies that are making wellness for an extended lifetime more attainable. The use ...

Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have discovered a way to turn the body’s B cells into tiny surveillance machines and antibody factories that can pump out specially designed ...

An international team led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden has identified the molecular tools needed to reprogram ordinary cells into specialized immune cells. The discovery, published in ...

Resting brain stem cells hardly differ from normal astrocytes, which support the nerve cells in the brain. How can almost identical cells perform such different functions? The key lies in the ...

Your liver cells are forgetting how to do their jobs under dietary stress. Here's how that signals cancer risk years before ...