Trinity College Dublin scientists showed that electrical stimulation reprograms macrophages to reduce inflammation and boost healing. This breakthrough could lead to broad therapeutic uses.

In the march of metastasis, a molecular trail of crumbs guides some cancer cells from the primary tumor to establish new ...

As it does with other pathogens, your immune system sees drugs as foreign invaders to be expelled from your body. But ...

It starts with a sneeze. Someone on the subway didn't cover their mouth and now a cloud of invisible invaders hangs in the ...

The enteric nervous system (ENS), the largest division of autonomic nervous system, is a tantalizing frontier in neuroscience. With the advent of single-cell transcriptomics, the ENS has been ...

When the seasons change, your immune system has to work overtime to keep up with shifting temperatures, drier air and allergy triggers. Add in less sunlight, lower vitamin D and more time indoors in ...

A new method to keep human lymph node tissue alive and functioning outside the body for several days could give researchers a ...

Why do men and women often respond differently to the same infections, allergies, or treatments? A new study suggests the answer may come down to just one gene. Researchers from the University of York ...

Patients with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) have heightened innate immune responses to bacteria, viruses and fungi. While these responses are essential to fight infection ...

Background The aetiology and pathogenesis of IBD are intricate, involving genetic and environmental factors. Notably, cigarette smoking has contrasting effects, being detrimental to Crohn’s disease ...

Researchers at UT Southwestern have uncovered a surprising way in which tumors exploit the body’s own immune system to grow unchecked. Their findings reveal a hidden interaction between a hormone and ...

Rochester, Minn. — The immune system is meant to protect the body from infection and disease. But with age, it can become less capable of doing so. However, Mayo Clinic researchers have found that ...