For decades, depression has been explained to patients as a “chemical imbalance” in the brain, a vague phrase that never ...

A new Cell study suggests that T cell exhaustion in tumors is driven in part by failed proteostasis, causing damaged and ...

Diets and healthy eating habits hold promise for preventing and treating diseases, but far less is known about acute effects ...

T cells are crucial components of our immune system, serving as critical protectors against infection and disease. But there ...

Short-term nutritional state can reshape T cell metabolism, with post-meal lipid metabolism enhancing T cell metabolic ...

During infection or cancer, cytotoxic T lymphocytes attach to their target and establish an exchange zone known as the immune ...

Cells manage a wide range of functions in their tiny package — growing, moving, housekeeping, and so on — and most of those functions require energy. But how do cells get this energy in the first ...

Cytotoxic T lymphocytes are the body's specialized "killer" cells, precisely eliminating infected or cancerous cells. Their ...

Unlike our organs, cell organelles such as mitochondria are not fixed in place, but when, where, how, and why organelles move remain unclear. Research published in the Biophysical Journal shows that ...

A tiny antibody component could fundamentally transform the treatment of cystic fibrosis: For the first time, researchers ...

Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC) and the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) uncover a key metabolic mechanism governing immune ...