Most cells evolve slowly, accumulating incremental changes that better suit their environments. Immune cells, because they must adapt rapidly to counter new threats, evolve much more quickly. Part of ...
The idea of turning back the clock on the immune system has moved from science fiction to a concrete experimental strategy. A ...
Fighting off pathogens is a tour de force that must happen with speed and precision. A team of researchers at CeMM and MedUni Vienna led by Christoph Bock and Matthias Farlik has investigated how ...
Researchers found an antibody that seems to play a role in people with better lung cancer prognoses, but turning it into a ...
Researchers found an association between increased activity in a reward region of the brain—primarily stimulated by hopeful thinking—and heightened levels of protective antibodies after receiving a va ...
Training people to activate a part of the brain linked to reward and positive expectations may be associated with an increase ...