A team of researchers has developed a "gut-on-chip" (a miniature model of the human intestine on a chip-sized device) capable ...

Scientists explore how the immune and nervous systems constantly communicate, influencing brain diseases, behavior, and ...

Advances in the field identified components of both the innate and adaptive ... that pertain to the activation and perpetuation of adaptive immune responses during obesity and discuss key missing ...

UC Riverside scientists delve into the immune intricacies of obesity and parasitic infections, examining how gender-specific responses might unlock new treatments. Their work could reshape our ...

Altimmune, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALT), a biopharmaceutical company with a market capitalization of $503.56 million focused on developing treatments for liver disease and obesity, has been garnering ...

Are Obesity-related Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes Autoimmune Diseases? Tissue damage coupled to an inflammatory milieu can result in the loss of tolerance toward self-antigens and the ...

The new study highlights the key role in this process of a protein called Mincle, expressed in cells of the innate immune system. The study is published in the journal Immunity and was conducted ...

In the case of SARS-CoV-2, host restriction factors—components of the innate immune system—act to inhibit the viral life ... demonstrating prolonged pro-inflammatory immune activation even months ...

Dr Aly said: "Obesity is bad for the brain ... including in the heart and some parts of the immune system. "It is very clear this class of drugs seem to suppress reward mechanisms [in the brain ...