HIV & AIDS

Increasing the potency of HIV-battling proteins

If one is good, two can sometimes be better. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have certainly found this to be the case when it comes to a small HIV-fighting protein.

Immunology

New CAR T cell therapy using double target aimed at solid tumors

Chimeric antigen receptors (CARs), engineered from a patient's own immune cells, have been successful for treating blood cancers, but using CARs for solid tumors has been limited by side effects to normal tissues containing ...

Medical research

Location, location, location: New research on glycogen storage

When a group of cyclists set off to climb Mount Etna on the 3rd stage of Giro d'Italia today, they will have definitely eaten large amounts of carbohydrates in the form of pasta, rice or potatoes within the past few days. ...

Medical research

Study unveils insight into a debilitating brain disease

From the neurons that enable thought to the keratinocytes that make toenails grow–a complex canopy of sugar molecules, commonly known as glycans, envelop every living cell in the human body.