The Humans of the Wyss (HOW) series features members of the Wyss community discussing their work, the influences that shape ...

Researchers show that the immune system can recognize and control the latent stage of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, a finding that can inform the study of latency in other infections of the nervous ...

For decades, the prevailing scientific consensus held that the human immune system deteriorates at a steady, linear pace as ...

Scientists at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM), led by Université de Montréal medical professor Javier Di Noia ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — More than a century of scientific research has shed light on the neuroimmune interaction ...

For most of human history, the skull has had one obvious job: protect the brain. A new study suggests it may also have another role: researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St.

Immune system scientists and computational biologists are developing a new tool to investigate how the body fights disease. With this new resource, called ImmGenMaps, researchers are building a map of ...

Obviously our bodies change a lot as we age, and culturally we tend to focus on the ones we can see-wrinkles, weight gain, loss of muscle mass, etc. But the most dramatic alterations may be happening ...

The yeast Candida albicans colonizes mucosal surfaces and is usually harmless. However, under certain conditions it can cause dangerous infections. A research team at the University of Zurich has now ...

When ocrelizumab became the first FDA-approved treatment for early forms of multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2017, it offered patients immense hope. The long-awaited drug is a monoclonal antibody that ...

Regular exercise makes our immune cells more vigilant, potentially contributing to better long-term health, a new study finds ...

Most humans have long-lived infections in various tissues—including in the nervous system—that typically do not result in disease. The microbes associated with these infections enter a latent stage ...