The first line of immune defense against invading pathogens like bacteria are macrophages, immune cells that engulf every foreign object
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Hemp shows potential for treating ovarian cancer: Researchers demonstrate hemp’s ability to slow cancer growth and uncover mechanism for its cancer-fighting ability
Results from some of the first studies to examine hemp’s ability to fight cancer show that it might one day
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Far-red fluorescent silk can kill harmful bacteria as biomedical and environmental remedy
A silk hybrid material attacks bacteria when illuminated by a green light, thanks to a far-red fluorescent protein researchers transferred
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Why alcohol, sugar lead to thirst
Why does drinking alcohol or consuming sugar make us thirsty? An international study of mice in Texas and humans in
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Risk of type 1 diabetes climbs when one population of T cells falls: Study in mice links protective immune cells that form outside the thymus with autoimmune diabetes — and suggests that gut microbes affecting this cell population may protect against disease
In autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, some of the immune system’s T cells mistakenly attack the body’s own
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Timing of stress-hormone pulses controls weight gain
New research provides the first molecular understanding of why people gain weight due to chronic stress, disrupted circadian rhythms and
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How a protein helps bacteria outsmart the human immune system: Findings have major implications for tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease
Researchers have uncovered a mechanism by which the bacteria that cause Lyme disease persist in the human body and fight
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