Findings indicate the brain's anticipatory response to virtual infections activates immune mechanisms, showcasing the link between neuroscience and immunity.

The immune system senses damage to cell membranes caused by pore-forming proteins and mounts a response. The sneezing, itchy ...

There are evolutionary reasons why the immune system may have evolved to overreact in this way (panic attacks are another ...

Modupe O. Coker from the School of Dental Medicine and a collaborative team of researchers identified changes over time in ...

Mice with a handful of cancerous cells in their lungs experienced a 100-fold increase to this number after being infected ...

Hidden in the lungs of some breast cancer survivors are tumour cells that can remain dormant for decades — until they one day ...

Stroke remains one of the leading causes of mortality and long-term disability worldwide, imposing a significant burden on individuals, healthcare systems, ...

Experts make human volunteers face approaching pathogens in virtual reality and find that specific brain regions become ...