Working with an international team of collaborators, scientists at Columbia University have found a way to shift the balance ...

A new study in The Journal of Immunology reveals how a high-fat diet may impair the immune system's ability to respond to infection by impacting the function of neutrophils, one of the first immune ...

Hospitalized older adults with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and sepsis exhibit impaired neutrophil function; however, glycolytic metabolism is not the driver of neutrophil dysfunction. This ...

Heart attacks trigger a cascade of reactions in the body, and certain immune cells may worsen the damage by disrupting heart ...

This scanning electron microscopy image captures the moment where degranulating mast cells (pseudo-colored in sepia) attract and start to incorporate living neutrophils (pseudo-colored in cyan), ...

Scientists identify WASH protein complex as a gatekeeper of neutrophil-driven inflammation. A team led by Scripps Research scientists has uncovered key details of an immune-cell process that ...

A more-developed version of the assay used in this study may help manage patients with acute decompensation of liver cirrhosis or acute-on-chronic liver failure before liver transplantation. Patients ...

A team led by Scripps Research scientists has uncovered key details of an immune-cell process that frequently underlies excessive inflammation in the body. The findings could lead to new ways of ...

The EMA recommendation comes after a phase 3 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial which involved 1721 patients aged 12 and older. Patients were treated with either 10 mg or 25 ...

Intracerebral hemorrhages (ICH) account for 15% of strokes but a disproportionate 50% of all stroke deaths. An ICH occurs ...