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How scientists aim to induce an immune response against addictive drugs

Researchers use magnetic nanoparticles and liquid-handling robots in an effort to detect COVID-19 outbreaks early.

Researchers find different distributions of the immune cells in young, older, and diseased eyes.

This year’s most captivating illustrations tell stories from the micro scale—such as newborn neurons in the adult brain and bacteria in the infant gut—to the scale of entire ecosystems, including reintroduced predators and rising seas.

A recent study sheds light on a previously unknown mechanism for fending off the pathogen, and potentially other viruses as well.

The leaky blood vessels and lung fluid build-up in some COVID-19 patients might be explained by the virus’s corruption of an inflammation safeguard.

Cancer therapies could potentially be more effective if their development took into account the cells that give rise to tumor-fighting cells.

Specialized exosomes sop up bacterial toxins, a study finds.

While neutrophil extracellular traps help guard the body from infection, they also can contribute to a range of diseases.

A stick-on patch enables sampling of immune cells in the skin.

Belly fat helps fight infection, but is also a common site of metastasis.

Immune cells called macrophages shuttle cellular messages in the skin.

An experimental technique removes T cells that aid in vitro tumor growth.

In mice, immune cells from the body cavity surrounding organs arrive at the site of damage to chew up the nuclei of dead cells.