Giving further insight into their work published in Nature Aging on May 30, 2024, Prof. Minamino states, "Unlike the conventional senescent cell-eliminating agents, SGLT2 inhibitors are a new ...

An engineered protein turns off the kind of immune cells most likely to damage tissue as part of type-1 diabetes, hepatitis, ...

The human immune system is like an army of specialized soldiers (immune cells) each with a unique role to play in fighting disease. In a new study published in Nature, led by scientists at the ...

Sep. 21, 2021 — Cancer-fighting immune cells in patients with lung cancer whose tumors do not respond to immunotherapies appear to be running on a different 'program' that makes them less ...

Unfortunately, suppressor cells can’t always stop a dangerous immune response. In type 1 diabetes, for example, the immune system destroys pancreatic islet cells, while these suppressor cells just ...

Immune cells use two different routes to produce acetyl-CoA, an essential metabolite required to fight infection and cancer, reports a new study. The findings could help improve immunotherapies by ...

The other family of cells, the NK cells, compose some 5 to 15 percent of all lymphocytes. Like the phagocytes, they reside in the spleen, lymph nodes, and red bone marrow.

Immune cells have a surprising and critical role in controlling movement and bridging neural activity with metabolic demands, concludes a groundbreaking study published in Nature by researchers ...