For more than a century, the human appendix has been written off as a biological relic, a shrunken leftover from plant-eating ancestors that serves no real purpose. That view is now outdated. A ...

An initiative partly funded by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the UK has moved further towards its goal of producing a 'human cell atlas' (HCA) to map every cell type in the human body.

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinsky Institute has today decided to award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Mary Branco, Fred Ramsdell, and Simonakaguchi for their discoveries ...

Stanford researchers reveal how regulatory T cells recognize safe foods by scanning for specific protein signals, opening new paths to prevent and treat food allergies.

Food allergies are serious and, for some, potentially deadly. And yet, despite decades of research into allergies and what causes them, very little is ...