The answer lies in how infected individuals invest into controlling pathogen proliferation and mitigating damage, two strategies respectively called resistance and disease tolerance. Pathogen ...

A guardian molecule ensures that liver cells do not lose their identity. This has been discovered by researchers from the ...

The development of bacterial vaccines has played a critical role in combating infectious diseases, significantly reducing mortality and morbidity worldwide.

Collaboration will combine AbbVie’s oncology expertise and Xilio’s proprietary tumor-activation technology to develop novel immunotherapies, ...

A special liquid diet, known as exclusive enteral nutrition, is an essential therapy for Crohn's disease. Patients consume ...

Background Early-life inflammation has long been recognised as a key pathophysiological process in the evolution of cystic ...

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Gene therapies to treat rheumatoid arthritis have evolved slowly, but one is ready to move into human trials and an ...

The management of Leishmania donova ni (LD), responsible for fatal visceral leishmaniasis (VL), faces increasing challenges due to rising drug-unresponsiveness, leading to increasing treatment ...

A new Weizmann Institute study identified all of the proteins in a stool sample – those from the microbiome, the human body and food – revealing the hidden secrets of the intestines and their impact o ...

UCSF scientists are taking the first steps toward creating a new type of antibiotic that uses an unusual virus to defeat ...

Researchers have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope protein to hijack human plasmin to enhance transmission.