What is inflammation? Inflammation usually happens when your immune system is fighting an infection or an injury. When lupus makes your immune system attack healthy tissue, it can cause inflammation ...

A team at Scripps Research has created a microchip that can rapidly reveal how a person's antibodies respond to viruses using only a drop of blood. This game-changing technology, called mEM, condenses ...

Most people don’t think about the spleen when they get vaccinated, but this small organ plays a key role in the immune system. Located under the ribcage on the left ...

Nerves look blue in the reconstructed view of a genetically engineered mouse (left) whose neurons produce a fluorescent ...

Infections in the brain can have serious consequences and are often fatal. The immune defense system works differently here ...

Maintaining good overall health is key to living a long life, but we may want to particularly focus on the state of our brain ...