A study reveals that the immune protein IFITM3 limits flu infection severity and mutation rates, especially from zoonotic ...

There is one specific task that stress researchers who conduct animal experiments need to be particularly skilled at. This ...

Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection—among them, raising ...

Yount has studied flu and this protein for years, and his lab developed a mouse model lacking the gene that codes for ... at different viral particle levels in mice lacking the IFITM3 gene and normal ...

Glioblastoma is the most common kind of malignant brain tumor in adults. So far, no treatment has been able to make this ...

Could we pack the dementia-fighting benefits of exercise into a pill? An intriguing mouse study conducted by USC scientists ...

MSK researchers discovered that the innate immune system's chronic activation due to issues in the Mre11 complex can lead to ...

Two enzymes in brain cells are responsible for mediating the toxic effects of certain fat molecules in multiple sclerosis, ...

We went back to the lab and devised a new robust immunotherapy strategy, using the same TCR as an initial trigger, but this ...

Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA ...