Pathogens can create sticky situations. When microbes invade the body to cause an infection, often one of their first lines ...

Cells experience many different types of stress, such as starvation or stress caused by too much salt or too high a temperature. Insulin signals respond to such stress signals by sending the protein ...

Scientists have made a discovery that helps explain why humans and animals are so susceptible to contracting tuberculosis(TB) ...

Scientists have made a discovery that helps explain why humans and animals are so susceptible to contracting tuberculosis(TB) – and it involves the bacteria harnessing part of the immune system meant ...

The parasite that may already live in your brain can infect the very immune cells trying to destroy it, but new UVA Health research reveals how our bodies keep it under control.