How plants pass defenses to offspring through a complex molecular network
How plants pass defenses to offspring through a complex molecular network
Why naked mole-rats and experimental gene therapies remind me of groundbreaking artists.
What can a twentysomething naked mole-rat tell us about fighting pain, cancer, and aging?
A protein that keeps the immune response in check leads a double life as an anti-aging factor.
The diversity of microbes in the great outdoors may protect against inflammatory disorders.
Techniques for simpler, cheaper, and better antibody purification
A cytokine involved in suppressing the immune system may actually activate it to kill cancer cells.
Telomeres have been linked to numerous diseases over the years, but how exactly short telomeres cause diseases and how medicine can prevent telomere erosion are still up for debate.
A combination of antibiotics and the body’s own defensive metabolites clears bacterial infections faster than antibiotics alone.
In rhesus macaques, an individual's drop in the social hierarchy leads to overactive immune genes and, possibly, poor health.