Our blood consists of many cell types that develop through different stages from a precursor type—the blood stem cell. An ...

The researchers next showed that when macrophages were exposed to inflammatory signals, their activity changed alongside ...

Scientists have uncovered a critical piece of the puzzle in autoimmune diseases: a protein that helps release immune response ...

Space travel causes many physiological changes that affect an astronaut’s health. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A screen of human-infecting viruses identified extensive examples of viral proteins that resembled human sequences, which ...

Now, researchers from Yale have found that a specific bacterium, called Enterococcus gallinarum, can move from the gut to ...

ways your body changes with the seasons, from metabolism to immune function, and learn how aligning health practices with ...

NASA astronauts are returning to Earth after nine months in space. Experts have said a prolonged period in space can come ...

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are finally on track for their long-awaited return to Earth. And they must ...

In a recent, cross-institutional study partially funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers report that healthy human airways are at higher risk for dehydration and inflammation when ...

Doused with radiation, many immune cells die and immunity is lowered ... “Space is just not very hospitable to the human body,” said Emmanuel Urquieta, vice chair of aerospace medicine ...