The immune system – made up of organs, tissues, cells and proteins – is your body’s personal defense system against bacteria ...

Fever temperatures rev up immune cell metabolism, proliferation and activity, but they also -; in a particular subset of T cells -; cause mitochondrial stress, DNA damage and cell death, Vanderbilt ...

Inflammation represents a long-conserved biological process characterized by the release of chemical messengers that regulate ...

Although the role of innate immune sensing pathways is well-studied in the pathogenesis of malignancies, whether they ...

Sickness-induced sleep is a behavior conserved across species that promotes recovery from illness, yet the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Here, we show that interleukin-6-like cytokine ...

In the constantly evolving field of molecular biology, one of the most challenging tasks has been designing proteins that can ...

Cancer acts like a wound that never heals, showing the immune system’s inability to eliminate tumor cells. A new discovery ...

Cancer has been described as "a wound that does not heal," implying that the immune system is unable to wipe out invading ...

Implanting a pouch of stem-cell-derived pancreas cells under the skin of type 1 diabetics has enabled them to live without ...

Our present study implies that intestinal tuft cells can be trained by IL-25 and it may explain the different susceptibility ...

Do you suffer from symptoms such as gas, bloating, constipation, diarrhea? If so, it’s important to understand that these gut problems are NOT normal. They are your body’s immune system telling you ...

BackgroundIdiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic progressive interstitial lung disease characterized by unexplained ...