New research by scientists at the University of Toronto and the Structural Genomics Consortium has deepened our understanding ...

Unlike other pathologies, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) cannot be reproduced accurately in animal models, complicating ...

When Treg cells are produced, they are trained to recognize specific peptides, including self-peptides from the body. When ...

Scientists led by Karla Satchell, Ph.D., the Anne Stewart Youmans Professor of Microbiology at Northwestern University, have ...

Researchers have identified a never-before-seen mechanism that enables HIV-1 to evade the body's natural defenses and use it to support its survival and replication. The 'loophole' is a biological ...

The adaptive immune system is an antigen-specific structure that discriminates non-self molecules through ... genes for both the T-cell receptor (TCR) and the immunoglobulin gene.

The burgeoning knowledge on chemokines and their receptors has influenced many aspects of immunology, in part because cell migration is intimately related to leukocyte function. This overview ...

Loricrin comprises up to 80% of protein on terminally differentiated keratinocyte cell surfaces, desmoglein-1 and desmocollin-1 are involved in intercellular keratinocyte adhesion, and ...