A newly developed therapy inspired by bacteria residing within tumors offers a different way to combat cancer by targeting ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising secret hidden inside fat cells that could reshape how we think about obesity and metabolic disease. A protein called HSL, long believed to simply release stored ...

The primary cilium acts as a specialized protein factory essential for brain development and linked to Filippi syndrome.

Six pairs of UC San Francisco faculty members and their PhD students have been awarded funding through the W. M. Keck Foundation’s inaugural Scholar-Fellow Bridge Initiative, a program designed to ...

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center researchers have discovered that YAP1 protein expression emerges after ...

Membrane proteins present significant technical challenges in drug discovery, yet their role in biology make them highly ...

Macrophages use cell‑volume changes to sense danger, reprogram gene expression, and heighten inflammatory and antiviral responses.

As part of the body's first line of defense against foreign invaders, macrophages play an integral role in the innate immune ...

New ways to block or treat measles would be particularly important for people who are immunocompromised and babies under the age of 1 because they are not eligible for the vaccine.

Since a landmark 2009 study, researchers have known that a common gut bacterium, Bacteroides fragilis, drives colon tumor ...

A hallmark of type 2 diabetes is the progressive loss of beta cell mass: cells in the pancreas that produce and release ...