Inflammation is a vital part of the immune response, but it seems that the system can sometimes go awry, resulting in chronic ...

A Wayne State University study published in Nature Communications revealed that Zika virus exposure during pregnancy causes ...

Prenatal Zika exposure can alter a child’s immune system, increasing susceptibility to infections and inflammatory diseases ...

Research led by the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging in Cologne reports that misincorporation of ribonucleotides ...

As it does with other pathogens, your immune system sees drugs as foreign invaders to be expelled from your body. But ...

Review of the emerging understanding of trained immunity in the skin and how infection-driven cellular processes induce long-lasting immune adaptation and modulate skin barrier integrity.

Oral bacteria viridans streptococci were found in over 60 percent of arterial plaques Biofilm-forming bacteria in plaque ...

Background: Porcine genome editing has revolutionized xenotransplantation, recently enabling the first pig-to-human heart xenotransplants. However, the xeno-immune response in heart xenografts remains ...

Children and teenagers are more vulnerable to meningitis than adults because their immune systems are still developing, ...

A Wayne State University study published in the Oct. 3, 2025, issue of Nature Communications revealed that Zika virus exposure during pregnancy causes long-term, sex-specific changes to a baby's ...

Some of our biggest threats can come in the tiniest forms—viruses and bacteria. Thankfully, we are born with a built-in defense system, our innate immune system that protects us in our youth but can ...

Stowers Institute researchers have found that the very thing designed to prevent the body from illness may be a factor in ...