It has long been thought that only nerve and heart cells use electric impulses to communicate, while epithelial cells — which ...

The immune system is crucial to our health. It must sense pathogens and respond to the threat effectively. But the immune ...

What if treating autoimmune diseases was as simple as regulating the acidity levels of parts of patients' cells? Genetic screening may have unlocked a path for treating the severe inflammation ...

Scientists have uncovered a critical piece of the puzzle in autoimmune diseases: a protein that helps release immune response ...

A protein called STING, previously shown to control a pathway that contributes to antiviral signaling, also plays an ...

However, Tan and his team wanted to identify other transcription factors regulated by STING. On screening human cells to identify proteins that shuttled from the cytosol to the nucleus during STING ...