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

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 ...

The study of defence mechanisms provides critical insight into the unconscious psychological strategies individuals deploy to manage emotional conflict and perceived threats. Historically rooted in ...

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 ...