Scientists in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and MIT have created a new family of tools that, for the first time, illuminates the missing half of how the immune system uses ...

When people become gravely ill from COVID-19, a cytokine storm — their body’s own reaction to the virus — may sometimes make things worse. The phenomenon has been described as “an immune system gone ...

Sepsis—when an infection causes the immune system to improperly target the body—is one of the leading causes of death in the ICU. While many studies have examined the dynamics that lead to sepsis, the ...

Cytokines are key to immune regulation. Their extensive impact on human biology and disease has led to their long-term therapeutic use in treating cancer and a range of other diseases. Interleukin-2 ...

Cancer immunotherapy has advanced significantly in recent years, dramatically improving patient prognosis and survival. The majority of cancer immunotherapy research currently focuses on the first T ...

Cells have sophisticated methods of sensing stimuli and communicating with nearby cells in response to these stimuli. For example, macrophages can sense environmental stimuli—tissue damage, foreign ...

Researchers have discovered in a preclinical model that cytokines, proteins that control immune response, circulating in maternal blood during pregnancy may mitigate an offspring's risk for ...

Over-activation of the immune system may be behind severe cases of COVID-19. Chirag Nagpal/ Shutterstock Despite over 200,000 deaths reported worldwide, scientists are only just beginning to ...

No potential conflict of interest relevant to this letter was reported. Gaestel M. What goes up must come down: molecular basis of MAPKAP kinase 2/3-dependent regulation of the inflammatory response ...