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Your garden is probably beautiful. It might also be trying to hurt your children. That’s not meant to alarm you, though it ...

A deep-sea mollusk, Catillopecten margaritatus, lost its sight and adapted to bacteria and chemicals to survive in extreme ...

C-type lectin receptors (CLRs) play central roles in immune recognition, engaging diverse endogenous and exogenous ligands through their C-type lectin-like ...

A piece of chewing gum may sound out of place in a cancer lab. Yet in this case, it became the delivery system for two ...

Researchers have created a bioengineered chewing gum that sharply reduces microbes linked to head and neck squamous cell carcinoma in laboratory tests. The gum, which combines a bean-derived antiviral ...

Embedded in the body’s mucosal surfaces, proteins called lectins bind to sugars found on cell surfaces. A team led by MIT chemistry professor Laura Kiessling has found that one such protein, ...

Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ: OMER) today announced that the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has assigned a ...

Despite the transformative effect of immune checkpoint inhibitors, fewer than 20% of cancer patients achieve durable responses. One mechanism of cancer evasion involves glyco-immune checkpoints, in ...

Eating raw or undercooked beans poses a health risk because of the potential presence of lectins, according to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). The European Commission asked EFSA to conduct ...

New research has updated our understanding of how sugars, known as glycans, help immune cells move into skin in the inflammatory disease, psoriasis. The paper entitled "Leukocytes have a heparan ...