A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer ...

At the height of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, researchers in Thomas Marichal’s immunophysiology laboratory at the University of Liège were studying samples collected from the lungs of patients who had ...

Sepsis is a fatal syndrome characterized by life-threatening organ dysfunction originating from a chaotic and unchecked innate immune response to infection. Notably, macrophages are the master ...

Instead, they found a mechanism that speeds muscle repair, which may inspire new medicines for slowing muscle wasting and helping injured people. The study also suggests that macrophages could ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan studied what happens when macrophages—a type of immune cell—encounter dying cancer cells in tumors and discovered a mechanism that accelerates tumor growth.

Macrophages are white blood cells that play a key role in helping to protect us against microscopic threats, from infections to cancer. These cells constantly survey the body’s tissues and consume ...

This work illuminates the essential role of epithelial ATG5 in defending against P. aeruginosa. Atg5 deficiency impairs bacterial clearance and aggravates inflammation via inflammasome activation, and ...

Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is a highly prevalent sensory disorder globally, affecting over 1.5 billion people, with a ...

CLEVELAND - One third of the world’s population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), which leads to tuberculosis (TB), a leading cause of death world-wide. A new discovery, led by a team ...