Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that gut bacteria help regulate the development of the body's ...

Chronic and viral infections can literally exhaust certain key cells in the immune system from a constant barrage of attacks.

Researchers at the University of Münster and Ruhr University Bochum have demonstrated for the first time in real time that the body's own defense cells use catecholamines—neurotransmitters such as ...

There is a constant war going on in your body. Working against you are viruses and cancer cells growing uncontrollably, threatening your tissues and organs. Fighting on your side are immune cells such ...

Glial and immune cells; long regarded as passive bystanders in the nervous system, are now recognized as active architects of ...