Recent research on human evolution suggests that the extinction of our Neanderthal cousins may have been hastened by ...

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The microbiome-the trillions of bacteria, viruses, and fungi that live quietly in our body-plays a crucial role in shaping ...

A Czech scientist has contributed to understanding the function of the thymus—the training center of the immune system. T ...

In our next roundtable webinar, learn how scientists leverage spatial biology to map tissues, uncover cellular interactions, and advance disease research.

This story has been updated. The human immune system is our body’s primary line of defense against harmful microbes, viruses and other invaders—but that defense line can sometimes run amok and attack ...

Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) are a new type of pluripotent stem cells first generated in 2006 by Kyoto University Professor Yamanaka Shinya. Human iPS cells can be made from skin or ...

The team succeeded in turning T cells from mice suffering autoimmune diseases into stable regulatory T cells with a special ...