A new drug being trialed in heart attack patients could reprogram the immune system to prevent inflammation and heart damage following severe heart attacks, and promote repair. This could be a ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track Designation to Complement Therapeutics’ CTx001, the ...

A sugar on mycobacteria binds to the immune receptor dectin-1 on host macrophages, helping the bacteria survive and driving ...

Brown explains the science behind muscle soreness, and what you can do to fix it ...

Delivers rapid, durable responses in wAIHA, the more common form of this potentially life-threatening disease — HONG KONG and SHANGHAI and ...

Though an estimated 60 million people around the world have atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a type of irregular and often fast heartbeat, it's been at least 30 years since any new treatments have been ...

The immune system’s first encounter with a virus or vaccine establishes a “starting template” that shapes its response to new ...

Abdominal fat is not a uniform tissue. A new study from Karolinska Institutet, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, and ...

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless ...

Plants mobilize their immune defenses far earlier than scientists have believed for decades—and through a previously ...

I am lying under a blanket, feeling rough, staring at a bowl of oranges. Every fibre of my being is urging me to devour the lot. I can hear my mum – and medical friends at university – insisting that ...