A microfluidic device scans individual C. elegans for abnormal traits and sorts wild-type animals from mutants.
A microfluidic device scans individual C. elegans for abnormal traits and sorts wild-type animals from mutants.
Unlike epithelial cells, neurons respond to herpes infection through autophagy, rather than by releasing inflammatory factors.
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Fat cells behave differently in obese individuals, causing inflammation and insulin resitance.
After decades of political wrangling, the European Union is poised to introduce a single patent system to reduce red tape and application costs for researchers and companies.
The healing powers of maggots may lie in their secreted proteins, which restrain the human immune response.
Insulin, long recognized as a primary regulator of blood glucose, is now also understood to play key roles in neuroplasticity, neuromodulation, and neurotrophism.
Adipose tissue plays an immune role in individuals of normal wieght.
Elderly people are worse at spotting untrustworthy faces, possibly due to decreased activity in the brain region associated with such perceptions.