CD163 might not be the most exciting name in the world, but behind it lies one of the body's most important defense receptors ...

But what alerts the body to danger? How are foreign organisms ... et al. A family of human receptors structurally related to Drosophila Toll. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...

Scientists at Pennington Biomedical Research Center have gained greater clarity in the brain regions and neurons that control ...

Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages, Dr. Jack Hartnell explores how societies at the time understood the human body, and ...

Relatively little is known about the underlying mechanism and function of these receptors, even in the human body, Weng says. So, he and his team started working through a database of 680 species ...

Skin - Largest organ of the human body. Contains sense receptors that detect touch. The skin protects the body from damage.

and T cell receptors (TCRs) provide a detailed record of the antigens (both ‘self’ and ‘non-self’) that a human body has responded to — a sort of ‘fingerprint’ of current and prior ...

A team from the Monell Chemical Senses Center and Rutgers University have published a study in the British Journal of ...