From influencing weight gain to supporting immune function, gut microbes do far more than digest food. They may even explain ...

Pneumoconiosis remains a prevalent occupational disease with limited treatment options. A new review study elucidates the ...

A 3D micro-Light Emitting Diode (LED) device has been developed that wraps around the pancreas like octopus tentacles, ...

A single signaling pathway controls whether immune cells attack or befriend cells they encounter while patrolling our bodies, ...

Vitamin C, zinc, and other compounds can help your immune system thrive. Eating superfoods with these vitamins and minerals may help your body fight infection and disease.

Detectives often find important clues by digging through rubbish. That approach paid off tremendously for systems biologist Yifat Merbl. When she and her team investigated cellular recycling centres ...

Type 1 diabetes is a disease in which the body mistakenly attacks itself as the immune system destroys the pancreas's insulin ...

Multigene families are at the core of immune system complexity, shaping how organisms sense, respond to, and remember infection. Gene duplication, ...

Two years after this, Sakaguchi was able to link these discoveries. He proved that the Foxp3 gene governs the development of ...

Infectious diseases remain a significant threat to global public health, responsible for substantial morbidity and mortality ...

This study provides useful insights into addressing the question of whether the prevalence of autoimmune disease could be driven by sex differences in the T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire, correlating ...

This potentially valuable cross-sectional longitudinal study leverages high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to examine its effect on ...