Scientists have linked stress to worsening allergies, but the biology behind it was unclear—until now. Japanese researchers have identified the cellular chain reaction linking stress to worsened skin ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Aligning therapies with the biologic clock may improve efficacy, as macrophage activity peaks early in the morning, worsening inflammatory disease symptoms.

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

Monocytes and macrophages are myeloid cells that have important innate immune functions. Macrophages reside in tissues and respond to infection by producing inflammatory mediators and engulfing ...

Atherosclerosis risk is elevated in diabetic patients, but the underlying mechanism such as the involvement of macrophages remains unclear. Here, we investigated the underlying mechanism related to ...

Scientists in the laboratory of Navdeep Chandel, Ph.D., the David W. Cugell, MD, Professor of Medicine in the Division of ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than two in five American adults have obesity, a common and ...