Wu and colleagues confirmed that cultured-microglia-carrying lipid droplets struggled with phagocytosis, poorly engulfing ...

A 5-year-old boy is dead after a hyperbaric chamber he was inside exploded at a medical facility Friday in Troy, Michigan, police and fire officials said. The unidentified victim was inside the ...

Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Negative Carbon Technologies, Soochow University, 199 Ren’ai Road, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China Institute ...

There is solid evidence for the cleavage of VgrG2B by Caspase 11 and the generation of fragments that inhibit activity of the NLRP3 inflammasome. This work should be of interest to immunologists and ...

Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory, New Chemistry Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Jakkur P.O., Bengaluru 560064, Karnataka, India ...

For ROS detection, MLE-12 cells were incubated for 20 min in serum ... Agarose gel electrophoresis was used for analysis of PCR products (Quang et al., 2006). NLRP3, ASC, caspase-1, and IL-1β mRNA ...

The NLRP3 inflammasome activation signals confirmed by current studies include. Cytoplasmic ROS, generated by reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase, is a common activator of the ...

The deadly Sydney funnel-web is three distinct species – not one, as previously thought, scientists have confirmed. Spider experts have long suspected the Sydney funnel-web was more than one species ...

Tom Howarth is a Newsweek reporter based in Bristol, U.K. His focus is reporting on nature and science. He covers climate change, biodiversity, extreme weather, zoonotic diseases and more. Tom ...

The number of Australian animals, plants and unique ecological communities officially recognised as being in danger of extinction rose to 2,142 last year. Australia has one of the world's highest ...