A human study reveals how naturally occurring fat-derived molecules help switch off inflammation. Researchers at (UCL) have identified an important biological process that helps the body bring ...

Cedars-Sinai investigators have identified several steps in a cellular process responsible for triggering one of the body's important inflammatory responses. Their findings, published in the ...

SINGAPORE, 22 September 2022 – A virus that attacks heart tissue wreaks havoc by triggering an inflammatory response that can ultimately lead to cell death. Now, a team of scientists from Singapore ...

Heart damage is common among patients hospitalized with COVID-19, leading many to wonder how the virus affects the heart. Now, researchers have found that the spike protein from the severe acute ...

Autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis arise when the immune system turns against the body itself. Yet for most of them, it remains unclear why this process begins. Researchers have now ...

A newly uncovered immune chain reaction in the gut may explain why people with inflammatory bowel disease face a much higher ...

New research led by a team from New York University has found evidence a common viral infection can trigger inflammatory bowel disease in genetically susceptible people. Across a series of mouse ...

A new study shows that the body’s early immune response, not the virus itself, often determines how severe a rhinovirus cold ...

We typically think of SARS-CoV-2, the pathogen that causes COVID, as a respiratory virus. That makes sense, given that it is airborne and typically infects humans via the nose and lungs, and causes ...