Hepatitis D virus (HDV) infects the liver and causes severe inflammation. According to WHO estimates, 12 million people ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a live-imaging system, Phollow, that tracks individual ...

For biologists, seeing is believing. But sometimes biologists have a hard time seeing. One particularly vexing challenge is ...

In all, they collected data that covers about 3.4 miles (5.4 kilometers) of neuronal wiring in a part of the brain that processes visual information from the eyes. Listen to Story They worked out the ...

The problem is that free viruses are not always present – many viruses reside within host cells, evading antibody-based immunity. Effective long-term immunity, therefore, requires the activation of ...

The same analysis was performed for CMV, identifying a gene pool for all different cell subtypes. The comparison between the two viruses was depicted by Venn diagrams by the ggvenn R package (n 0.1.10 ...

The Venn diagram was constructed using Venn diagram function in R ... YES (FYN), and CD247 molecule (cd247), which are involved in natural killer cell-mediated cytotoxicity. Interestingly, some ...

They do this by destroying cells in the body that have been taken over by viruses or become cancerous. A third type of lymphocyte, known as a natural killer or NK cell, comes from the same place ...

CD20 is a CD marker—a molecule on the cell surface that can be used to identify and type a particular cell in the body. CD20 is found on the surface of B cells (a type of immune system cell). But ...