One avenue for this ambition is cell receptors, which function like ignition slots on a cell, requiring keys—such as specific hormones, drugs, or antigens—to start up specific cellular activities.

Researchers at the University of Chicago have developed a "universal" chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) platform that offers ...

New synthetic biosensors developed by Professor Josh Leonard give immune cells the ability to read their environment and act ...

With artificially engineered receptors they mimic the original's function. This opens promising new avenues towards understanding and utilizing cellular signaling of immune cells.

Genentech is continuing its summer of downsizing and cost-cutting, this time with plans to terminate a cell therapy deal ...

Everyone Believed Cell Receptors Existed, But Chemistry Nobelists Figured Out That They Actually Did The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work that helped to figure out the functioning of ...

A new study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School has identified a set of cellular receptors for at least three related alphaviruses shared across mosquitoes, humans, and animals that host ...

Based on meta-analysis of over 100 studies of transmembrane cell-surface receptors, as well as his own research, Prof. Maruyama proposed a new model for receptor activation -- the "rotation model." ...

This receptor, called retinoic acid receptor alpha (RARα), is known to control gene expression programs in the nucleus, but it also now appears to operate outside the cell nucleus to coordinate ...