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Automated quality control using rapid PCR assays is replacing 28-day culture tests, cutting biopharmaceutical lot release ...

A team at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has identified a novel metabolic pathway that plays a key role in enabling ...

For the immune system to effectively combat pathogens, antibody responses must be precisely controlled. So-called follicular regulatory T cells (Tfr cells) play a key role in this process by limiting ...

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Understanding inflammation—and, above all, how to regulate it—is one of the great medical challenges of modern medicine. Its ...

Clinigen's Jules Shale discusses navigating complex logistics to deliver life-saving therapies and the rewarding human ...