MHC class II molecules are central to the adaptive immune response, serving as the means by which antigen-presenting cells, notably dendritic cells, display processed peptides to CD4+ T cells. This ...

A new study by the University of California, Davis, shows how cells work together to avoid a sudden drop in blood sugar.

Our cells produce a variety of proteins, each with a specific role that, in many cases, means that they need to be in a particular part of the cell where that role is needed. One of the ways that ...

For years, the pancreas has been being taught in biology class as an easy system: insulin lowers blood sugar, and glucagon ...

Kayothera, Inc. ("Kayothera"), a preclinical therapeutics company developing first-in-class, small molecule inhibitors of the ...

Researchers at Linköping University have built artificial neurons from conductive plastics that replicate up to 17 biological ...

Most people recognize Alzheimer's from its devastating symptoms such as memory loss, while new drugs target pathological aspects of disease manifestations, such as plaques of amyloid proteins. Now a ...

Researchers demonstrate an artificial neuron made of conductive plastics that can perform advanced functions similar to those of biological nerve cells.