Human immunodeficiency virus 1, more commonly known as HIV-1, is known for its uncanny ability to evade the immune system. Scientists at Scripps Research and collaborators have now uncovered how our ...

While participating in a two-day India-EMBO Lecture Course on ‘Cell-Autonomous Defence and Innate Immunity’ held at CCMB, ...

Scientists generally agree that eukaryotes, the domain of life whose cells contain nuclei and that includes almost all multicellular organisms, originated from a process involving the symbiotic union ...

Researchers at the India-EMBO lecture course at CCMB concluded that disturbances in one cellular pathway can impact others, driving diseases from infections to cancer and neurodegeneration, as ...

SARS-CoV-2 has an enzyme that can counteract a cell's innate defense mechanism against viruses, explaining why it is more infectious than the previous SARS and MERS-causing viruses. The discovery may ...

In several disease conditions, including infections and cancers, innate immune activation and nutrient scarcity occur ...

This story is one in a series marking International Women and Girls in Science Day. Join us as we celebrate some laboratory leaders taking research to new heights. As an assistant professor of ...

Omicron, first detected by South Africa and reported to the WHO on November 24, has a large number of mutations - Copyright AFP Chandan KHANNA, CHANDAN KHANNA Omicron ...

Research led by Washington State University scientists supports a novel theory that the innate immune system people are born with, can respond differently to specific pathogens. This quality, known as ...

The SARS-CoV-2 Alpha (B.1.1.7) variant mutated to evade our 'innate immune system', helping establish it as the world's first 'Variant of Concern', a new study finds. The SARS-CoV-2 Alpha (B.1.1.7) ...