In the 13 th century, unusual skin lesions resembling wolf bites led to the term "lupus," meaning "wolf" in Latin. These symptoms also took the form of a butterfly across the face and to other parts ...

A lot of things need to go right on a molecular level for immune cells to launch an adaptive response to an infection.

Researchers have developed a new gene switch that can be activated using a commercially available nitroglycerine patch applied to the skin. One day, researchers want to use switches of this kind to ...