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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Medical researchers have used animals, particularly mice, to mimic disease and study biological phenomena. The origin of mice as a standard model system for scientific research can extend back to the ...

For the first time, scientists have successfully created a type of mouse with a 100% functional human immune system and human-like gut microbiome. This 'humanized' mouse takes the guesswork out of ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A new study finds that proteasomes—structures that reside in all cells in the body and typically break ...

Researchers at MIT have unveiled a way to temporarily reboot aging immune systems, using a targeted mRNA therapy that turns ...

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Taken together, these advances suggest that part of age-related immune decline is driven by specific, potentially reversible ...

Gut microbes may play a key role in training a mother's immune system to adapt to the developing fetus during pregnancy, ...

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 ...