For the roughly 3 million Americans living with inflammatory bowel disease, the current treatment options tell a frustrating ...
Intestinal tuft cells divide to make new cells when immunological cues trigger them. Additionally, in contrast to progenitor- and stem cells, tuft cells can survive severe injury such as irradiation ...
A new preclinical study from Weill Cornell Medicine found that the protein caspase-5 (CASP5), long thought to be a foot soldier in the body's defense against bacterial infection, does not actually ...
New evidence shows that human M cells act as fully fledged antigen-presenting cells, processing and presenting gluten peptides through a dendritic cell-like pathway that may shape early coeliac ...
Animal models have enabled us to learn an incredible amount of new information about human biology, health, and disease. But these animals can't always serve as a reliable example of the human body.