Researchers in Japan are exploring a future where the body itself becomes a health monitor, no screens or batteries required.

When our body fights an infection, the immune system must quickly activate defenses and trigger a beneficial inflammatory ...

The class of anti-inflammatory drugs known as TNF-inhibitors has brought relief to many sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis, ...

The editor invite submissions of original biological and clinical research focusing on the finely-tuned control of non-immune ...

Inflammation has to fight pathogens fast—but it can't get out of control. Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center ...

Study findings map out a new way in which antiviral signals engage with cellular metabolism to balance defense and repair.

If severe DNA damage is not repaired, the consequences for the health of cells and tissues are dramatic. A study led by ...

Inflammation hasto fight pathogens fast—but it can't get out of control. Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have now deciphered in more detail how the organism masters this ...

Piezoelectric nanoparticles deployed inside immune cells and stimulated remotely by ultrasound can trigger the body's disease-fighting response, according to an interdisciplinary team of Boston ...

As soon as you are wounded—whether from grabbing a hot pan or contracting the flu—you begin a unique journey through variable ...

A heart attack activates stress circuits in the brain that evolved for survival but can amplify inflammation, disrupt healing ...