The body’s “killer” T cells don’t just attack—they strike with astonishing precision, forming a tiny, highly organized ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Killer T cell (orange) attacking cancer (blue). (CREDIT: Alex Ritter) The current path to CAR-T cell therapy is, by any measure, a ...

The human body has always been crowded with microscopic passengers, from bacteria to viruses and fungi. Over the past two years, however, researchers have started to realize that this familiar cast ...

Biologists mapping the human microbiome expected to find new bacteria and viruses, not entities that slip through every familiar category of life. Yet that is what several research teams now say they ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Time capsules apparently aren’t just for stashing trinkets you last saw in 1999. If you ask molecular ...

In new research, scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers at Harvard University and Brigham Young University, used the ...

Scientists at EPFL have developed CenSpark, a fluorescent probe that makes centrioles and cilia visible inside living cells, ...

Researchers at VIB and VUB have developed a powerful new way to study how the immune system behaves inside lung tumors. By ...

Gene editing has emerged as a powerful approach for targeting the genetic causes of disease, but getting the editing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. First discovered in 1986, vaults are mysterious organelles whose exact functions still remain unknown. Now, researchers themselves ...

The current path to CAR-T cell therapy is, by any measure, a logistical ordeal. A patient’s immune cells must be drawn out of the body, shipped to a specialized facility, genetically reprogrammed, ...