A hidden “jack-in-the-box” mechanism inside T cells may hold the key to unlocking more powerful cancer immunotherapies.

Scientists have discovered that T cell receptors activate through a hidden spring-like motion that had never been seen before ...

Cancer’s deadliest talent is not rapid growth but the ability to sidestep the internal programs that should make damaged cells self-destruct. Across multiple labs, researchers are now converging on a ...

Mingzhu Zheng, Kairui Mao, Difeng Fang, Dan Li, Jun Lyu, Dingkang Peng, Xi Chen, Nikki Cannon, Gangqing Hu, Jiajia Han, Keji Zhao, Wanjun Chen, Jinfang Zhu Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

Scientists from the University of California Davis (UC Davis) Comprehensive Cancer Center have recently published in Cell Death and Disease, identifying a critical protein that causes cells to die.

Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California have discovered that a protein called Piezo1 prevents type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) in the lung from becoming ...

ZURICH-SCHLIEREN, Switzerland and CONCORD, Mass., Nov. 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Molecular Partners AG (SIX: MOLN; NASDAQ: MOLN), a clinical-stage biotech company developing a new class of ...

Graduate student Stefan Lundgren (left) and Associate Professor Sean Collins, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, are studying how immune system cells called neutrophils can prioritize ...