As part of the body's first line of defense against foreign invaders, macrophages play an integral role in the innate immune ...

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) endure abdominal pain, diarrhea, rectal bleeding, and weight loss. As these symptoms develop, the cellular environment in the gut undergoes a dramatic ...

Scientists at The Wistar Institute and clinical researchers from ChristianaCare's Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research ...

Cardiologists are using a blood test that’s been around for decades, in a new way, to predict heart problems. The measure of inflammation is now considered just as important as measuring cholesterol.

Diamond quantum nanoprobes detect immune cell inflammation by sensing electric charge shifts, opening a new path for real-time single-cell monitoring in immunology and cancer research. (Nanowerk ...

Imagine a routine blood draw at your annual physical that could warn you about depression before you ever feel it coming.

An intestinal pathogen reshapes the gut environment to fuel its own colonization and cause diseases, a multi-institutional ...

A research team led by Professor Jong Kyoung Kim and Yujin Jeong (PhD candidate), from the Department of Life Sciences at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in collaboration with ...

Researchers have discovered that inflammation in the gut leaves long-term marks on intestinal stem cells (ISCs) that reduce their ability to heal the intestine, even after inflammation has receded.