I lead the Africa and Madagascar team within Kew’s Identification and Naming department. We undertake fundamental taxonomic research and botanical inventories of underexplored areas, resulting in the ...

Regulatory T (T Reg) cells are essential for maintaining peripheral tolerance, preventing autoimmunity and limiting chronic inflammatory diseases. However, they also limit beneficial responses by ...

CD4 T helper cells are a type of white blood cell called a lymphocyte that serves an important role in your immune system. These cells help defend the body against infection by directing other "killer ...

I’m going to say when I met Giorgio Armani . . . “He came over to me and put his hand on my cheek and called me ‘Bella’ (pretty in English). Which I thought was really nice.

To discover how brain cells respond to microgravity, scientists sent tiny clumps of stem-cell derived brain cells called 'organoids' to the International Space Station. Microgravity is known to ...

Parvovirus B19 causes erythema infectiosum, more commonly known as “slapped-cheek syndrome” because of the bright red cheek rashes it causes. Experts warn the virus can be especially dangerous ...

Scientists have discovered that our specialized immune cells, called T cells, are what they eat -- their switch from functional to 'exhausted' depends on the switch from metabolizing acetate to ...

The reporter was rushed to a private hospital in Shamshabad where doctors performed a CT scan and found that the zygomatic (cheek) bone was fractured in three places. Doctors said a plastic ...

Experts of infectious diseases and reproductive medicine have called on pregnant women to take steps against slapped cheek syndrome, also known as the fifth disease, following an outbreak in ...

Legal Cheek’s next Virtual Law Fair takes place on Tuesday 1 April 2025 from 2-4pm as part of our Spring Virtual Vacation Scheme. Further Legal Cheek Virtual Law Fairs take place in June (part ...

The new technique is a second-generation clock that, as the name suggests, uses easy-to-access cells from inside the cheek to quantify molecular aging. “We also demonstrate that specific methylation ...