The body’s pathogen fighters can act as surveillance forces that ferry information from the gut and fat deposits to the brain ...

In mice with Alzheimer's, the course of menthol for a six-month-long period was enough to stop the cognitive abilities and ...

So is it time to add viruses to one's microbiome-feeding regimen of probiotics and prebiotics, synbiotics (which combine the ...

More than three decades ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) as the first ...

Researchers found that immune T cells reside in healthy brains, signaling between the gut and brain, a previously unknown ...

A study appearing in Nature investigated the role of astrocytes, an abundant cell type in the brain, in regulating an immune ...

In a new study out this week, scientists report that a combination of two existing cancer drugs — rapamycin and trametinib — ...

A decades-old TB vaccine turned cancer therapy may unlock new immunotherapies by reprogramming immune cell development in the ...

Trillions of microbes live in the human gastrointestinal tract, where they play critical roles in our health and biology; they can help us ... | Microbiology ...

Discussions of strength often mean brute force and sprint speeds — qualities associated with male physiology. But female ...

A team of Ohio State researchers engineered a new antibody that could revolutionize influenza prevention through a nasal ...

Anti-aging aficionados have tried it all — including taking certain drugs off-label in the hopes they will lead to longer, ...