Proteins in Mucus Offer Immune Protection
It turns out that mucus may not be just a messy side effect of colds and sickness. Biological engineers at MIT are exploring the antiviral…
Immunobiology News
Understanding Antibiotics and Their Role in Killing Bacteria
Over the years antibiotics have saved many lives, but scientists never fully understood the process of how bacteria were killed, until now. A new study…
New Findings Challenge Role of Antibodies
New findings are set to challenge the understanding of immune defense. In a recently published journal, researchers studied the response of mice to neurotropic vesicular…
Immune System May Trigger Melanoma Growth
Findings suggest that our own immune system may be working against us when it comes to protection from skin cancer. The scientists found that in…
Nanoparticle Based MRI Technique Predicts Onset of Diabetes
While working with mice, researchers were able to use a new magnetic nanoparticle-based MRI technique to predict Type-1 diabetes and were able to leverage this…
Cholera Kills off its Microbial Rivals by Jabbing Them with a Spring-Loaded Poison Dagger
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the California Institute of Technology teamed up to image the T6SS system working in real-time to prove their hypothesis…
Researchers Track Development of T-cells in Living Zebrafish Embryos
For the first time ever, researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg have observed the maturation of immune cells in…
Altered Microbes that Cause Obesity & Chronic Liver Disease May be Infectious
Research from scientists at the Yale School of Medicine suggests that obesity and chronic liver disease from altered populations of microbes in the stomach may…
