A group of immune proteins called the inflammasome can help prevent blood stem cells from becoming malignant by removing certain receptors from their surfaces and blocking cancer gene activity, ...
Scientists have discovered that T cells -- white blood cells that can destroy harmful pathogens -- can completely prevent viral infection, to an extent previously thought only possible due to ...
their blood sugar returned to normal, confirming the role of these immune cells in stabilizing glucose when energy is scarce.” Realizing that the immune system could affect a hormone as vital as ...
their blood sugar returned to normal, confirming the role of these immune cells in stabilising glucose when energy is scarce”, explains Veiga-Fernandes. Realising that the immune system could ...