The most comprehensive map of the developing human thymus sheds light on how immune responses are built and maintained at early life, with implications for understanding and treating immunodeficiency, ...

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Sneaky parasite evades the human immune system by stripping cells and wearing them as a disguise Parasites are known to infect human cells through a variety of ingenious mechanisms. Many of them have ...

A microscopic parasite that can live for decades in the human brain infects an estimated one-third of the world's population ...

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A new discovery about how cells communicate with each other in the body's immune system has revealed deeper insights for an ...

Researchers are edging closer to a universal antiviral drug, a single medicine that could treat every virus known to man.

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Human peadiatric thymus image from the IBEX protein multiplex (44 proteins on the same image) platform. Thymic epithelial cells are labeled with DEC205 (cyan), pan-cytokeratin (purple), keratin 5 (red ...