When pathogens enter our cells as part of an infection, our body will trigger a programmed cell death known as "pyroptosis" ...

The first, obviously, was making functional electronic devices smaller than cells that can circulate in our blood. “Previous ...

Research on cancer development now firmly positions chronic inflammation as a central factor driving tumor initiation, malignant progression, and ...

It started with wine. Or more precisely, a conversation about it. "My colleagues and I were talking about how some people ...

Researchers discover how mitochondria not only produce energy but also influence inflammation. Whether cells in the human body survive or die under stress depends, among other things, on their ...

About 1 million people in the U.S. live with multiple sclerosis, a chronic autoimmune disease that inflames the nervous ...

Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have found that inflammation in an immune cell may be responsible in part for some severe symptoms in a group of rare genetic conditions called ...

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered clues as to how our bodies turn sensations such as heat and touch into signals sent to the brain—and how these signals can be ...