ALLO-316 shows promising results in advanced renal cell carcinoma, with a 25% response rate and rapid treatment turnaround, ...

Some are totally independent, while others prefer company. Salmonella and many other kinds of bacteria are of the social type: They can live and even thrive inside a host cell. But unlike us, these ...

Peripheral blood stem cell transplants are safer and easier for the donor and with contemporary graft-vs-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis, they don't appear to pose any additional GVHD risk for the ...

Human papillomaviruses, or HPVs, can cause dangerous infections in the skin and mucous membranes and may lead to cancer.

Scientists have identified dozens of human proteins that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, depends on to replicate ...

Parasitic tapeworm larvae release glutamate and other excitatory molecules that can directly excite brain neurons.

Autophagy is a crucial and fundamental process that helps cells break down damaged organelles or problematic proteins. This work has shown how it can be hijacked by a virus. “The bottom line is this ...

A new study reveals the biological secret to the Zika virus's infectious success: Zika uses host cells' own "self-care" system of clearing away useless molecules to suppress the host proteins that ...

Cells can enter a third state only under certain conditions, however, and researchers are still not sure how they can continue to function after the death of the organism.

Biopharmaceuticals and biotherapeutics are medicines produced from living cells. But cells produce other proteins (called host cell proteins, or HCPs) that can contaminate the final therapeutic ...

Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a potentially serious complication of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (allo-HPSCT), a transplant of stem cells from a donor.