As part of the body's first line of defense against foreign invaders, macrophages play an integral role in the innate immune ...

Cell walls are a crucial structure of plant life, protecting cells from damage, giving plants shape, and containing ...

Antibiotic resistance is making bacterial infections harder to treat, demanding new therapeutic strategies. A new review ...

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are nanoscale lipid bilayer particles secreted by cells that mediate intercellular communication by transporting biomolecules such as proteins and RNA. Among them, ...

Citing a nationwide rise in several infectious diseases, two health tech companies plan to test a new airborne-pathogen-detection and air-purification system at a San Francisco school later this year.

Bacteria and the viruses that infect them are perpetually at war. Their deadly clashes push both kinds of microbes to evolve new traits that meet the challenges of every environment they inhabit, from ...

In the depths of Scarisoara cave in Romania sits one of the world’s biggest underground glaciers, a monumental slab of ice the size of roughly 40 Olympic swimming pools that began to form around ...

Plant-derived extracellular vesicles (PDEVs) and plant-derived nanoparticles (PDNPs) are emerging plant-based nanomaterials with growing relevance in biotechnology, agriculture, and health. Although ...

This Review Article provides a timely review of how the extracellular matrix (ECM), particularly the vascular basement membrane, regulates leukocyte extravasation, migration, and downstream immune ...

Cardiovascular disease causes >50% of deaths in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD). Clinical studies suggest that kidney-derived factors contribute to cardiovascular disease ...

Take a look at the Demo Launch Trailer for Pathogenic, a 2D twin-stick roguelike shooter developed by Aberrant Labs. Players will embody a parasite on a mission to rid a human body of unhealthy beings ...

Panel A shows a bar chart of the quarterly human case counts since 2005. Panel B details outbreak clusters according to province from February 2023 through August 2024. Silhouettes represent the age, ...