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 ...

Chronic inflammation can raise a person's risk of cancer, and a new study reveals key details about how that might happen in ...

The human intestine is home to trillions of microscopic organisms, including hundreds of species of bacteria. In most people, these bacteria co-exist peacefully and contribute to a mutually beneficial ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. The study, published today in Cancer Cell, generated spatial transcriptomic maps in precancerous and more advanced stages of lung ...

There are two types of inflammation: acute and chronic. Acute inflammation is the kind that lasts a few hours, days, or weeks, and it’s helpful to healing. It’s your immune system’s response when ...