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T cell functionality
T cells, also called T lymphocytes, are an integral component of the adaptive immune system which seek out and eliminate foreign particles. Functions of T cells include killing infected host cells, activating other immune cells, producing and releasing immune messengers called cytokines into the body, and regulating the immune response. When T cell functionality is hindered by disease, genetics, or environment, the immune system could be at severe risk.
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OCT 21, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
The genome of the virus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, is very small. But it encodes for more than just the spike pro
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 21, 2022
Immunology
Mevalonate kinase deficiency (MKD) is a rare genetic disease caused by mutations in the mevalonate kinase gene, which en
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 18, 2022
Immunology
Introduction The immune system plays a dual role in inflammation and cancer development. Immune system effector cells ra
...
Sponsored By:
Sino Biological
OCT 17, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Gene sequences are made up of nucleotide bases, which are 'read' by the cell's machinery in triplets; three
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 13, 2022
Cancer
Point mutations change one or very few nucleotides in DNA, but they cause an estimated 30,000 genetic diseases in humans
...
OCT 13, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Cancer is basically what happens when cells start growing and dividing uncontrollably, and it gets worse when those canc
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 12, 2022
Health & Medicine
Scientists have found that bacteria and fungi in the human mouth can join forces to form a superorganism that is stronge
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 10, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Engineered T cell therapies involve the genetic modification of a patient’s own immune cells with chimeric antigen
...
OCT 10, 2022
Microbiology
Lyme disease occurs when a blacklegged tick that is infected with Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria bites a human, and the i
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 08, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have long known that certain things are risk factors for severe cases of COVID-19, such as old age or obesit
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 05, 2022
Health & Medicine
Researchers have now published a study that has revealed how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can infect brai
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 05, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
People with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) start to experience symptoms in early childhood. The disease is caused by
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 04, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
For many years researchers focused attention on protein-coding genes, and while they are very important, they only accou
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 02, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
The Ikmi group at EMBL has shown that exercise has an important influence on the sea anemone.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 30, 2022
Drug Discovery & Development
Scientists are developing a human version of a drug that was highly beneficial to a hamster model of COVID-19. The drug,
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 29, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
The lysosome is a small membrane bound organelle that can be found in most animal cells. It was once thought that these
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 29, 2022
Immunology
The immune system has to be able to differentiate between the organisms in our microbiome, which can be helpful and even
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 25, 2022
Microbiology
New research has suggested that bacteria that live in the human mouth could work as model organisms that can help us fin
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 19, 2022
Neuroscience
There are important neural circuits in the hypothalamus that help us sense our own hunger and when we feel full after a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 18, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
It is extremely challenging to study human development. There are animal models that can tell us how general aspects of
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 13, 2022
Immunology
It seems there is a lot more to lactate than we knew.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 06, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
The genome contains the sequences for protein-coding genes, but before those seuquences are translated into protein, the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 01, 2022
Cancer
Immune cells, known as T cells (also called T lymphocytes), play a vital role in the anti-tumor immune response. T
...
Written By:
Katie Kokolus
AUG 24, 2022
Immunology
T cells are on the front lines of the immune system, monitoring the body for pathogens, and springing into action when t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch