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Scientists at MIT and Stanford have unveiled a promising new way to help the immune system recognize and attack cancer cells more effectively. Their strategy targets a hidden “off switch” that tumors ...

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Human MAP1LC3B (LC3B) binds proteins involved in autophagy and other cellular processes using a degenerate four-residue short linear motif known as the LC3-interacting region (LIR). Biochemical and ...

As a young girl, Si-Hui Tan, PhD ’10, started studying science almost as a challenge. “I grew up in Singapore, where science is considered a boy thing,” she says. “I wanted to prove that I could do it ...

As the immune system weakens with age, scientists have found a way to restore some of its lost strength. By delivering mRNA to the liver, they created a temporary source of immune-boosting signals ...

The crazed gunman who killed two students and wounded nine others at Brown University before murdering a top MIT professor went back to Portugal for close to two decades after dropping out of the ...

President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program on Thursday that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States. Homeland Security Secretary ...

President Donald Trump ordered the suspension of the diversity visa (green card lottery) program after authorities said the Brown University and MIT shooting suspect, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, ...

President Trump on Thursday suspended the green-card lottery program, which was used by the suspected gunman in the Brown University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology shootings to enter the ...