Researchers from Stanford University have established that nonspreading tumors can affect neighboring noncancerous cells by inducing inflammation and DNA damage in the tissues surrounding the tumors.[more]

Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for the most severe form of malaria disease in humans, causing more than 1 million deaths each year.[more]

During viral replication, herpesviruses package their DNA into the procapsid by means of the terminase protein complex.[more]

Dendritic cells are one of the key immune cells that present proteins from foreign invaders, such as viruses, to the killer T cells of the immune system.[more]

Immunopaedia is the winner of the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education in Science magazine.[more]

Inflammatory bowel disease results from a loss of homeostasis, or balance, between the immune system and the microbes that inhabit the intestine.[more]

Researchers have always known that HIV has developed resistance to AZT via mutations, but the mechanism of how the mutations worked to bring about drug resistance was unknown.[more]