Amelia, a girl from Pierson Station born with a gene mutation, is getting ready to celebrate her fourth birthday in a St.

A significant discovery has identified a missing "gatekeeper" protein as the root cause of dry mouth in Sjögren's syndrome — ...

The finding, appearing this month in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, adds insight to an on-off switch for genes called STAT1. This gene regulator plays a pivotal role in the immune ...

The STAT family has six members (STAT1–6), each of which transduces the signal of particular cytokines. For instance, signaling from the interferon (IFN) receptors, interleukin-4 (IL-4 ...