The immune system regulates disease response throughout our bodies. Interestingly, two separate responses act as barriers to prevent the spread of infections. When first introduced to a disease, the ...

The immune system works to maintain homeostasis throughout the body. Various cell types and immune mechanisms work in concert to fight disease. Specifically, two waves of immunity orchestrate a robust ...

But which numbers actually matter? Routine blood tests remain among the most important ways to track overall health, yet most people never learn what values physicians prioritize. Understanding key ...

When a rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of the common cold, infects the lining of our nasal passages, our cells work ...

Atomic force microscopy images show hepatitis B DNA in its natural state (left) and a zoomed-in look at how it wraps around human histones during an infection (right). Disrupting this process in an ...

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and the Singapore General Hospital have discovered that T cells-white blood cells that can destroy harmful pathogens-can completely prevent viral infection, to ...

A research team at the University of Würzburg has, for the first time, uncovered how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate. The study opens the door to potential new treatments for bacterial ...

Dealing with an infection isn't as straightforward as simply killing the pathogen. The body also needs to carefully steer and ...

Universal gene‑edited CAR‑T therapies turn donor T cells into off‑the‑shelf cancer treatments, cutting delays and costs while ...

A stretch of viral DNA in the mouse genome gives cells in early-stage embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in ...