In people on HIV drugs, the virus may still exhaust T cells, making it hard to fight back For two decades, the dominant idea in HIV research has been that antiretroviral therapy effectively wipes out ...

Researchers have used a method of total-body imaging to measure and track the body’s immune response to viral infection. The method is a promising platform for studying human immunity in greater ...

The uEXPLORER total-body PET scanner at UC Davis will be used in a new project to look at the underlying causes of long COVID symptoms. (UC Davis photo) A team of UC Davis scientists used dynamic ...

Why can the human immune system often remember a vaccination for a whole lifetime? Researchers at ...

Human peadiatric thymus image from the IBEX protein multiplex (44 proteins on the same image) platform. Thymic epithelial cells are labeled with DEC205 (cyan), pan-cytokeratin (purple), keratin 5 (red ...

When the Human Genome Project mapped and sequenced the entire set of DNA instructions in a human cell—a 13-year, $2.7 billion global endeavor that completed in 2003—it produced one of humanity’s ...

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified two lipids that work together with a quintessential protein known ...

The immune system can be “reprogrammed” to heal the body faster using electrical stimulation, according to new research. Irish scientists discovered that electrically stimulating “macrophages” – one ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A new study finds that proteasomes—structures that reside in all cells in the body and typically break ...

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinsky Institute has today decided to award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Mary Branco, Fred Ramsdell, and Simonakaguchi for their discoveries ...