You may use defense mechanisms to help protect you from stress, but they can be both helpful and harmful. Recognizing defense ...

Viruses insert “transposable elements” into the genetic material of host cells to replicate. While cells’ defense mechanisms have learned to silence most of these viral insertions, a few “jumping ...

When confronted with an antibiotic, toxic substance, or other source of considerable stress, bacteria are able to activate a defense mechanism using cell-to-cell communication to 'warn' unaffected ...

In stressful times, we may utillize even more methods of stress reduction; however, we may be relying on some coping mechanisms that are not healthy for us and those around us. Denial is a human ...

A previously unknown defence mechanism in the brain prevents herpesvirus from infecting the brain's nerve cells. More than half of us are carriers of chronic herpesvirus infections. But even though ...

Earlier this spring, many of us had the privilege to see the solar eclipse while at the same time learn a lesson about defense mechanisms. For those of us who cared about preserving our vision, we ...

A (light green) bacterial cell detects a source of stress and is activated (dark green). It adorns itself with alarmones (depicted as red triangles) and can transmit them via cell-to-cell contact with ...