POHANG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (POSTECH) INNATE T CELLS HAVE ANALOGOUS EFFECTOR SUBSETS. view more CREDIT: YOU JEONG LEE, SANGUK KIM (POSTECH) There are memory cells that remember previously encountered pathogens and help to react quickly and strongly when exposed to them again. The developmental process of strong immune cells that make these memory...
By Nick Lavars Central to a lot of scientific research into aging are tiny caps on the ends of our chromosomes called telomeres. These protective sequences of DNA grow a little shorter each time a cell divides, but by intervening in this process, researchers hope to one day regulate the process of aging and the...
TOHOKU UNIVERSITY Mice born blind have shown significant improvement in vision after undergoing a new gene therapy developed by a team of Japanese scientists The results were published on January 24th in Nature Communications. This new method is an alternative strategy of gene supplementation, which involves supplementing the defective gene, such as the ones that...
