Mucosal surfaces serve as critical battlegrounds where the immune system must balance tolerance to commensal organisms with rapid defense against pathogens.

The cells of all animals—including humans—are characterized by their ability to adhere particularly well to surfaces in their ...

Researchers have found a way to control protein levels inside different tissues of a whole, living animal for the first time.

I know therapists use music to get through to people with Alzheimer’s disease who don’t really connect with anything else anymore. I just saw on the news that ...

Pomegranate juice is known to help with hypertension, a condition affecting about half of adults in the U.S. These everyday ...

A dramatic shift is taking place in the disease landscape in India. For instance, there is a clear trend towards an older population and an increasing prevalence of chronic diseases and ailments ...

Ribosomes don’t just make proteins—they can sense when something’s wrong. When they collide, they send out stress signals that activate a molecule called ZAK. Researchers uncovered how ZAK recognizes ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — November is Bladder Health Awareness Month, and Infirmary Health’s Laurie Repoll, PT joined WKRG News 5 on Take 5 to raise awareness on bladder health. In the video above, Repoll ...

In the new study, published Thursday (Nov. 20) in the journal Cell Metabolism, the team focused on endothelial cells, meaning the cells that line blood vessels, and identified a specific case in which ...

One of the main changes is a loss of the innate immune system's naive T cells, the first line of defense against pathogens, and an increase in the adaptive immune system's memory T cells. This ...