A collaborative team from Penn Medicine and Penn Engineering has uncovered the mathematical principles behind a ...

The H5N1 avian influenza virus has infected birds and mammals around the world. As of June 2025, 70 people have been infected ...

A research team at the University of Münster has investigated for the first time how the confrontation of bacteria with hosts that have an activated innate immune system affects the evolution of ...

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) or scleroderma is a rare, chronic, autoimmune disorder that hardens connective tissue and muscle in ...

Children born to obese mothers are at higher risk of developing metabolic disorders, even if they follow a healthy diet ...

“We observed that the peptides specifically kill cancer cells without attacking healthy breast tissue cells,” Strauß said in ...

Axolotls are known for their ability to regrow limbs, organs and even parts of the brain and heart. But the tailed amphibian ...

A small-molecule oral drug shaping up as a first-in-class to treat various forms of lupus performed well in a phase II trial, ...

Kuchel, a professor of medicine and the director of the UConn Center on Aging, was supposed to serve on the panel until 2028.

The innate immune system acts quickly and non-specifically to detect and fight infections; the slower, adaptive immune response recognizes and targets specific pathogens. ... However, some recent ...

The immune system has two main arms: innate and adaptive. The innate immune system recognizes broad molecular patterns, such as molecules that certain RNA viruses generate as they replicate. It is ...

Our immune system controls cancer, our immune system is important for wound healing and our immune system also restricts bacterial pathogens.” Ledvina and Whiteley highlight four such types of ...