Scientists in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and MIT have created a new family of tools that, for the ...

In the complex landscape of cancer, tumors create their own microenvironment, often marked by low oxygen levels, a condition known as hypoxia. Hypoxia arises as tumors grow rapidly, outpacing their ...

Secondary infections caused by bacteria or viruses during hospital care remain a long-standing global challenge, despite ...

Inflammation can feel like a localized fever, with redness, pain, heat and swelling. It’s how the body works to protect you after an injury, removing damaged tissue or invading bacteria and beginning ...

A new study reveals that simply seeing a visibly “infectious” figure can set off a chain reaction in the brain’s threat-detection circuits, triggering a measurable immune response, all without any ...

Nipah virus does not just infect the body, it disrupts immune defences at multiple levels, suppressing early antiviral responses and triggering harmful inflammation.

We are now approaching six years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, yet talk of vaccines and our immune systems persists in our cultural conversations—from ...

A new vaccine design uses folded DNA to steer the immune system toward producing the rare immune cells needed to make protective antibodies against HIV.

As tattoos become increasingly mainstream, particularly among young adults, new research raises questions about their long-term effects on the immune system. A new study has found that tattoo ink ...

Look in the mirror. Is one eye slightly higher than the other? Is your smile a bit lopsided? These tiny asymmetries might seem like nothing more than quirky physical traits, but they could be ...

Heart failure is a serious and long-lasting condition that affects millions of people around the world. It usually begins ...