For decades, scientists understood inducible nitric oxide synthase, or iNOS, as a one-trick enzyme. Its job was to churn out ...

Whenever there is a wound or infection, the body produces an inflammatory response. This is the body's first line of defense, ...

A stem cell-derived intestine model reveals glycyrrhizin as a potential treatment for inflammatory bowel disease.

Weill Cornell Medicine investigators made an unexpected finding about how the immune system normally suppresses inappropriate ...

A small cluster of damaged immune cells can do outsized harm. That is the picture emerging from new research at UCLA, where ...

Vitamin D may reduce intestinal inflammation by reshaping immune responses to gut bacteria and improving symptoms in bowel ...

The brain has its own immune system, which detects threats and mounts a defense. A growing body of evidence has shown that in ...

When the liver is injured - for example, due to bile accumulation - immune cells become activated. In mouse experiments, the ...

The research is happening at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.