A study by the team of Prof. Kodi Ravichandran (VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research) and colleagues found that pyroptosis, a form of programmed cell death traditionally thought to be purely ...

On occasion, the net-throwing cell is already dying or dead as this takes place, making it a zombie cell committing one final ...

In the United States, over 10% of the population has diabetes. Roughly 1 million individuals each year are diagnosed. As a ...

This valuable study reports on a novel role of PD-1 in early T cell differentiation, showing that PD-1 stimulation impairs Th2 differentiation more effectively than that of Th1, with implications for ...

Pancreatic cells, like human cells, have a limit to how much stress they can handle before they start to break down. Through ...

In recent years, as the number of people with chronic diseases has rocketed, the role of inflammation has become a hot topic ...

Pancreatic cells, like human cells, have a limit to how much stress they can handle before they start to break down. Through ...

The formation of pores by a particular protein, gasdermin D, plays a key role in inflammatory reactions. During its activation, an inhibitory part is split off. More than 30 of the remaining protein ...

The simple injection has shown promise in everything from preventing heart disease and diabetes to curing life-threatening autoimmune illness.

The research team explained that vascular disease, damage of blood vessels, and their resulting consequences, heart attack ...