Month: May 2024

In some severe cases of COVID-19, the lungs undergo extreme damage, resulting in a range of life-threatening conditions like pneumonia,

A new laboratory study suggests that human body lice are more efficient at transmitting Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes

When medical devices such as pacemakers are implanted in the body, they usually provoke an immune response that leads to

Researchers have developed an approach to “deleting” a blood system affected by leukemia while simultaneously building up a new, healthy

Roughly one in five cancer patients benefits from immunotherapy — a treatment that harnesses the immune system to fight cancer.

A Cleveland Clinic-led team of scientists and physicians have discovered that the immune checkpoint protein VISTA can directly turn off

Researchers from the University of Toronto, Canada, and Kyushu University, Japan, have found that increased neuron formation and the subsequent

The brain is often referred to as a “black box” — one that’s difficult to peer inside and determine what’s

A novel therapy that reprograms immune cells to promote antitumor activity helped shrink hard-to-treat prostate and bladder cancers in mice,

Periodontal disease, represented by periodontitis, is the leading cause of tooth loss and affects close to one in five adults