What if bacteria held the keys to a part of our own immunity? For several years, some scientists have been exploring unexpected links between human proteins involved in the body's defense and certain ...

When you become an NHL player, you’re fortunate to join a highly elite club. Now try to picture how elite and fortunate you have to be to play meaningful, memorable hockey in two Original Six markets.

A young man barged into a 400-person human sexuality lecture at the University of Washington on Wednesday, making what appeared to be Nazi salutes and hurling insults at the class. But it wasn’t ...

Listen to Shimon Sakaguchi, one of the 2025 Nobel laureates in medicine, talk about his research on The Conversation Weekly ...

Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered cells that protect the body from autoimmune diseases.

Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt researchers have built the first lung-on-a-chip with a working immune system, a breakthrough with the potential to reshape how we study disease, move beyond animal testing, ...

An aerial view shows a camp for internally displaced people in Djibo, Burkina Faso, May 26, 2022. Burkina Faso’s human rights situation seriously deteriorated in 2022 as deadly attacks by Islamist ...

Scientists have discovered that cancer uses a hidden hormone to switch off the body’s natural defenses, allowing tumors to grow unchecked. By uncovering this secret signal, they found a way to block ...

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The Centre is conducting a detailed review to assess whether the difficulty level of entrance exams such as JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) and NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) matches ...