Japan is due to fire a H-IIA rocket into space tomorrow, with a rather special payload aboard: The Ikaros space yacht, a beautiful vehicle that’s an experimental test bed for solar sail technology.

The development of a haematopoietic stem cell (HSC) into a T lymphocyte requires the loss of stem cell properties and the acquisition of T-cell characteristics, which is accompanied by changes in ...

In a scientific breakthrough that aids our understanding of the internal wiring of immune cells, researchers at Monash University in Australia have cracked the code behind IKAROS, an essential protein ...

LJI Associate Professor Ferhat Ay, Ph.D., and UC San Diego graduate student Daniela Salgado-Figueroa co-led the new research with scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

Researchers investigated the differentiation of stem cells to mature B cells, and now present, for the first time, molecular details on the role of the Ikaros gene during early B cell development. A ...