A substantial step towards eliminating HIV infection!?

HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus and is the causative organism for AIDS. The virus gets spread through body fluids and attacks the immune system, specifically CD4+ helper T cells. Over time, HIV destroys so many of these cells that the body can’t fight off infections and disease. Untreated, HIV reduces the number these cells (helper...

Survival of tissue-resident memory T cells requires exogenous lipid uptake and metabolism

T-lymphocytes are majorly divided into two classes depending upon the class of surface proteins (cluster of differentiation or CD). The two major CD proteins are CD4+ and CD8+. The cells with CD4+ surface protein are helper T cells and cells with CD8+ surface proteins are cytotoxic T cells. These two major T cell classes are further...

Zika virus protection by a single low-dose nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccination.

Zika virus a member of the virus family Flaviviridae was first isolated in 1947, from the Zika Forest of Uganda. This virus can be transmitted via mosquito-bite (Aedes), blood transfusions, sexually or during pregnancy to the fetus. It has been associated with microcephaly (severe brain malformations) and other birth defects in new-borns. It can rarely...

Cancer Review from NATURE (9th March)

This week’s edition covered leukemia, pancreatic cancer, and liver cancer In the first article that we will be talking about in this week’s review, the author talked about the identification of the regulatory protein ENL in a form of leukemia that provides insight into transcriptional regulation and highlights potential avenues for therapy. Leukemia, as we...