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 ...

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.

Wounded and elderly patients are being evacuated by train from embattled east Ukraine - Copyright AFP Ishara S. KODIKARA Wounded and elderly patients are being ...

Antibiotic resistance is one of the most pressing—and quietly advancing—challenges facing modern medicine. Among the most dangerous bacterial pathogens driving this crisis is Klebsiella pneumoniae, a ...

The past few decades have seen a dramatic shift in how human disorders can be treated. Growing knowledge of the molecular dynamics underlying physiological processes and technological advances are ...