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 ...

Laboratory biomarkers were utilized to assess immune-nutritional status. Univariate chi-square tests and multivariate logistic regression analyses were employed to determine correlations between ...

The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science has successfully developed a nanomaterial capable of simultaneously ...

The majority of children do not need a tonsillectomy.” But when done for the right reasons, tonsillectomy offers a meaningful ...

Food and immune system Recently, more importance has been directed in the understanding of mechanisms performed by food in development and regulation of immune response, as well as its impact on ...

One of the most striking discoveries was that human immune cells were found in every part of the pig kidney's filtering system after the transplant.

Exposure to wildfire smoke can affect the human immune system, according to a new study that adds to mounting evidence of the potential health risks posed by increasingly larger and prolonged blazes.