Taste, pain, or response to stress—nearly all essential functions in the human body are regulated by molecular switches called G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Researchers at the University of ...

Lefkowitz started to trace cell receptors in 1968. Using radioactivity, he managed to unveil several receptors, including one for adrenalin, the β-adrenergic receptor. His team then extracted the ...

Cancer immunotherapy, especially using T cells, is showing a lot of promise in treating blood cancers. Bioengineered T cells, especially those equipped with chimeric antigen receptors (CAR-T cells), ...

Scientists at École Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne (EPFL), and at UNIL-CHUV, University Hospital Lausanne (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL) have developed a computational method to create ...

Three years after launching from the lab of University of California, San Francisco chemist Jim Wells, the start-up EpiBiologics has raised $109 million in series B funding to propel its ...

This review synthesizes clinical, genetic, and mechanistic evidence showing that suPAR and related uPAR fragments are ...

A genetic mutation passed from mother to children in families affected by schizophrenia has now been shown to completely ...