Can your immune system sometimes protect you too weakly, react too strongly, or attack the wrong target? The post ...

Scientists at Gladstone and UC San Francisco—including Maya Arce, seen here—discover how one protein controls the behavior of immune cells, with potential applications for treating cancer and ...

The Forum on Regenerative Medicine held a two-day virtual workshop that explored promising approaches to modulate the patient immune system and/or the regenerative medicine product for improving the ...

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 ...

Chronic viral infections like HIV and HBV pose significant threats to human health, leading to substantial mortality and ongoing new infections each year.

Jon Ditlev ’03 had research work cut out for him long before coming to Calvin. “From as early as I can remember, I’ve been interested in human biology. In high school, I took biology freshman year and ...

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Many people believe in the common misconception that Lupus affects only joints, when in reality it is a multisystem disease ...

Many diseases affect men and women differently. Asthma tends to strike men earlier in life, yet more women develop asthma as they get older. Parkinson's is more common in men, but Alzheimer's is more ...

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 ...

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 ...