Researchers connecting pieces of the massive Alzheimer's puzzle are closer to slotting the next one in place, with yet ...

Surely, inflammation is half a billion years old, since even the lowly starfish may experience it. Virtually every human being who ever lived has suffered from it, perhaps dozens or hundreds of times.

In an IMI APPROACH cohort, an inflammation biomarker subtype aligned with worse knee osteoarthritis pain outcomes across ...

In most people, these bacteria coexist peacefully and contribute to a mutually beneficial relationship, with both human and bacteria deriving important benefits from the other. In certain individuals, ...

Our immune system is armed with an array of defenses designed to detect and eliminate harmful threats. One of its most powerful defense mechanisms is the complement system—a group of proteins that ...

In recent years, research into cannabis and its main psychoactive ingredient, Δ⁹-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), has unearthed ...

Specifically, a molecule released by immune cells during the inflammatory response, called interferon-gamma (IFNγ), triggers long-term change in how neurons regulate their genes that, without killing ...