An international team of UK and US scientists has discovered that the activity of macrophages—a type of white blood cell that engulf pathogens and cancer cells—can be used to predict whether ...

Scientists of the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) have identified new interactions between pancreatic cancer cells ...

Research from VIB-UGent identifies lipid-associated macrophages and LAM-like Kupffer cells as critical for liver repair. The ...

Find out why stress can worsen allergy symptoms. Learn about the cellular chain reaction that occurs in the body and how it ...

Be it from tap water on a vacation, some dodgy chicken, or something the kids have brought home from school, we've almost all been flattened by an awful stomach bug at some point in our lives. For ...

Initially mistaken for neutrophils, a population of atypical macrophages appears in the lungs after severe viral infection, orchestrates tissue repair, and then vanishes. Rebecca Roberts is a science ...

Professor Meghan Morrissey earns an innovation award to program immune cells to attack cancer tumors. #immunotherapy ...

Our livers contain many different types of immune cells. New research by the team of Prof. Charlotte Scott (VIB-UGent Center ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than two in five American adults have obesity, a common and costly chronic disease. Linked to chronic conditions like type 2 diabetes ...

Citation: Macrophages, not T cells, may hold key to predicting which melanoma patients are more likely to respond to immunotherapy (2025, January 8) retrieved 2 February 2025 from https ...