Every year, sepsis kills roughly 11 million people worldwide, more than lung cancer and heart attacks combined. Despite decades of research, no drug exists that directly strengthens the immune ...

From small ions to large molecules, cellular gates control what can pass in and out of cells. But how one such gate, called pannexin-1 (PANX1), can handle vastly different cargo sizes has remained a ...

A research team has discovered a previously unknown mechanism by which the immune system fights bacterial infections. The scientists found that a specific protein, the chloride channel PACC1, is ...

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