New research suggests that calming the brain's immune cells might prevent or lessen the damaging inflammation seen in ...

New insights into the mechanisms that cause more severe cases of schistosomiasis—a disease caused by parasitic worms and ...

Developing effective treatments and understanding how the mechanism of the immune system have always been ... exactly how these cells interact during disease and treatment. In a study recently ...

The link between these diseases is immunity, and loss of immune functions may explain the age-associated incidence of such diseases by reduced immunosurveillance, polyfunctionality or regulation.

At the turn of the century, the major preoccupation of the pediatrician was infectious diseases ... How close this was to the modern concept that the immune complex fixes complement, which ...

Pulmonary sarcoidosis is a lung disease characterized by granulomas ... "It's not a hammer; it's not overly suppressing the immune system. It's just nudging the immune system in a certain ...

Now, a new study demonstrates a proof of concept for ... is tolerated by the immune system, it may not be rejected in a modified form designed to treat Parkinson's disease. "Botox has been used ...

Although surgery, chemotherapy and radiation remain the mainstay of most cancer treatments, there is also another powerful tool: a patient’s own immune system. Since the 1990s, immune stimulants ...

Diseases such as covid-19 and influenza can be fatal due to an overreaction of the body’s immune system called a cytokine storm. Cytokines are small proteins released by many different cells in ...