When our body fights an infection, the immune system must quickly activate defenses and trigger a beneficial inflammatory ...

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer ...

A new study shows type I interferon fine-tunes macrophage mitochondria through the protein ISG15, boosting dead-cell ...

Researchers have identified an enzyme that controls the maturation and long-term survival of tissue-resident macrophages.

Study findings map out a new way in which antiviral signals engage with cellular metabolism to balance defense and repair.

Macrophages and other immune cells are the natural frontline immune warriors of our body, defending the body against invading pathogens and cancer cells. Yet despite their innate "combat" capabilities ...

Research led by Lancaster University has discovered that a class of antibiotics—fluoroquinolones—can directly alter the ...

Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a life-threatening syndrome characterized by systemic inflammation and immune dysregulation, in which ...

The research was led by Prof. Fuping Zhang from the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Prof. Jian Song from the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region People's ...