Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, but can cross into the brain and shape the behavior ...

Scientists link a rising brain protein to memory decline and show it can be reversed in mice, offering a new target for ...

T-bet expression is required for persistence of memory B cells that have rapid differentiation potential to become antibody-producing plasma cells in response to a second infection BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – ...

However, details of the intervening steps, as researchers have learned in the past 65 years, are quite complex — certain cells carry the flu antigen to the immune system, specific immune cells respond ...

An often-ignored type of cell in the brain plays a dynamic and surprisingly complex role in our ability to process information, according to new research. An often-ignored type of cell in the brain ...

Study published in SCIE-indexed international journal Molecular Neurobiology; Three intravenous infusions at four-week ...

Previous studies had only observed exhaustion under chronic antigen stimulation, according to the authors. Additionally, they found that impaired mitochondrial complex III function reduced CD8 + ...

Additionally, they found that impaired mitochondrial complex III function reduced CD8 + T-cell memory formation, which helps the immune cells persist after initial infection and provide protection for ...

In a wholly new approach to cancer treatment, Northwestern University biomedical engineers have doubled the effectiveness of chemotherapy in animal experiments. Instead of attacking cancer directly, ...