After eight years of work, researchers have unearthed what has been a well-kept secret of our immune system's success. The findings offer an explanation for how specialized immune cells are able to ...

Perforin/granzyme-induced apoptosis is the main pathway used by cytotoxic lymphocytes to kill virus-infected and transformed cells. The main function of the FAS–FAS ligand (FASL) pathway is to ...

Scientists have seen the human immune system's assassin -- a protein called perforin -- in action for the first time. The researchers used powerful electron microscopes to study the mechanism that ...

After eight years of work, researchers have unearthed what has been a well-kept secret of our immune system's success. The findings published online on June 9th in Immunity, a Cell Press publication, ...

Australian and British researchers have determined the structure of perfori, a protein which plays a part in helping insulin-producing beta cells get killed off by the body’s immune system in early ...

We now have a much clearer idea of how our body's immune system kills cancer cells and cells infected with viruses, thanks to a joint UK and Australian project. Their research was published today in ...

In a medical breakthrough scientists have found a protein called perforin that kills rogue cells in the human body especially the ones causing cancer. The team comprising of experts from Melbourne and ...

A team of Melbourne and London researchers have shown how a protein called perforin punches holes in, and kills, rogue cells in our bodies. Their discovery of the mechanism of this assassin is ...

As a part of our immune defenses, cytotoxic T cells—or killer T cells—seek out and destroy cells that are infected or cancerous. This process is essential for the body's defense against diseases.

After eight years of work, researchers have unearthed what has been a well-kept secret of our immune system's success. The findings published online on June 9th in Immunity, a Cell Press publication, ...

Scientists from the UK and Australia have seen the human immune system's assassin – a protein called perforin – in action for the first time. The UK team, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological ...