Platelets are small, anucleate blood cells that play an essential role in hemostasis. Their primary task is to recognize vascular injury, become activated, and aggregate via their surface receptor ...

A team from Würzburg has fundamentally changed our understanding of platelet biology. The researchers demonstrate that the ...

Far from Earth's gravitational pull, a simple viral infection took on a new evolutionary direction. A study conducted aboard the ISS found that when bacteria and ...

Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. Today, for instance, pharmaceutical companies use ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

Proteomics experiments on Drosophila reveal sex-specific effects in aging, and an important role for a protein called DIP-β.

Published, peer-reviewed research shows a patent-pending, virus-mimicking platform technology developed at Purdue University ...

Scientists suggest increasing what is understood about exocytosis could one day inform many fields of applied science.

Every time our body encounters a new disease-causing agent, a crucial defense system called adaptive immunity comes into play ...

Drug discovery is shifting from static snapshots to moving pictures. Instead of inferring how medicines work from end results ...

Research about LENN -- a patent-pending, virus-mimicking platform technology that targets bladder cancer cells with mRNA ...

A research team of the University Medical Center Mainz has succeeded in observing for the first time how G protein-coupled ...