Zika virus stealthily invades the placenta, posing risks to fetal development and causing birth defects like microcephaly.

Infection with Zika virus in pregnancy can lead to neurological disorders, fetal abnormalities and fetal death. Until now, how the virus manages to...

Immunotherapy, which uses programmed immune cells to selectively destroy cancer cells, has transformed cancer treatment. However, cancer cells have...

Scientists at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have discovered that certain gene variations linked to leukemia can also create “rogue”...

Security researchers have uncovered a coordinated attack campaign exploiting vulnerabilities in Google’s advertising ecosystem and PayPal’s...

An international team of researchers has uncovered how certain gut cells activate pain signals, which can persist long after the initial cause is...

Hebrew University scientists have revealed the mechanism that allows a certain microbe to evade immune cells, giving hope in the treatment not only of...

Researchers from the Organoid group at the Hubrecht Institute have found that specific gut cells, BEST4/CA7+ cells, regulate electrolyte and water...

Researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China have discovered a new strain of the coronavirus in bats, which enters human cells in a...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system caused by the immune system. B cells, which are a type of...