Medically reviewed by Oliver Eng, MD Mesothelioma is a cancer that develops in the thin tissue that lines some internal ...

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 ...

Installation of an IPC is usually an ambulatory procedure and involves the insertion of a tube attached to a one-way valve into the pleural space, allowing fluid to be drained from the pleural cavity ...

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 ...

This study provides the first comprehensive immunological characterization of paired blood and pleural effusion samples, utilizing combined cell and cytokine analyses in pediatric patients undergoing ...

Image: The entrance to the jail with a torn-down picture of Bashar al Assad He took us towards the cells where an unknown number of prisoners were held, tortured, moved on to other prisons ...

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 ...

Cancer cells often become unresponsive to multiple types of therapy. It emerges that these ‘cross-resistant’ tumour cells release lipids that reprogram cells called monocytes to stop them from ...

Department of Ultrasound, Hebei Medical University Third Hospital, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China Desmoplastic malignant peritoneal mesothelioma (DMPM) is an extremely rare and aggressive subtype of ...

As the women left their cells, a toddler could be seen walking the corridor. Thousands of people, including women and children, have been released from Syria's infamous prisons - as civil defence ...

As women age, they produce an increasing number of “killer” immune cells, which hunt down and destroy infected cells. This discovery, and the fact that the same isn’t true of men ...