The immune system must be able to quickly attack invaders like viruses, while also ignoring harmless stimuli, or allergies can result. Immune cells are known to ignore or "tolerate" molecules found on ...

Skin microbes do more than coexist—they shape immune responses, repair tissue, and influence gene expression across your ...

Cutaneous melanoma, the most aggressive form of skin cancer, is characterized by its accumulation of a large number of ...

A mother in northern Nigeria is visibly upset as she clutches her two-year-old child, who has burns and discoloured skin on his face and legs. The 32-year-old used skin-whitening products on all ...

including miniature microscopes that captured single-cell resolution in live animals. The study shows that memories are stored in dendritic compartments: When one memory forms, the affected ...

BPDCN typically presents skin lesions and may also involve bone marrow, blood, central nervous system, lymph nodes and viscera. The BPDCN cell of origin is the plasmacytoid dendritic cell (pDC) ...

Immune cells in the skin ‘cauterize’ open wounds and create ‘band-aids’ to prevent the spread of harmful bacteria and foreign molecules from injury sites, finds a study 1 in mice.

Neutrophils are an important type of circulating immune cell. The specialized neutrophils described in the new study populate the skin, where they produce collagen and other matrix proteins that ...

while epithelial cells, which form the linings of the skin, organs, and body cavities, were thought to be passive barriers, primarily absorbing and secreting substances. However, researchers from the ...

The young content creator is receiving his own skin, and we're here to let you know when it comes out and how you can get it. In addition to cosmetics, there will be a few extra Clix-inspired ...

Now, US researchers have discovered that the epithelial cells that line our skin and organs are able to signal the same way to communicate peril. They just use a long, slow 'scream', rather than the ...

More information: Hatem Soliman et al, A pilot study incorporating HER2-directed dendritic cells into neoadjuvant therapy of early stage HER2+ER- breast cancer, npj Breast Cancer (2025). DOI: 10. ...