For a long time, macrophages and foam cells were considered the principal agents in the formation of plaques. More recent ...

Their study in mice found that during periods of low energy— such as intermittent fasting—ILC2 immune cells step in to regulate blood sugar levels, acting as a “postman” in a previously ...

An enzyme called cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS) acts as a preemptive trigger for the immune system response. When foreign DNA ...

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), a type of arthritis commonly occurring in children, is a chronic, inflammatory condition ...

New research suggests that specific changes in blood composition may help protect the brain and reduce the risk of developing ...

A research team led by The University of Osaka finds that elevated levels of certain immune cells in patients with systemic ...

A study published in Cell Stem Cell reveals that some mutations in blood stem cells might help protect against late-onset ...

Cancer: «forgotten» cells go on the offensive. UNIGE Immunologists have discovered the yet unsuspected anti-tumour potential ...

A model developed by LMU biophysicists demonstrates how biological processes form the convoluted internal architecture of the ...

A recent paper in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, by Dr. Tomohiro Kurosaki and others, demonstrated that proteins on plasma cells indicate that they are generated in the body to live months, ...

Her Ph.D. work revolved around understanding how the nucleus influences a cell’s ability to move. At the time, conventional wisdom on cell migration for the most part ignored the nucleus, Thiam ...