Immune System

Aging is typically linked with the point in time when it causes problems. But there are many types of aging. There’s chronological age, which we [...]

COVID-19 can affect people in a number of ways. Some can be infected and have no symptoms ― what's known as being asymptomatic. Others have [...]

Vaccine stories are all around as the world waits for news on the many COVID-19 vaccines working their way through testing. Robert Jacobson, M.D., a [...]

Once thought to be a type of multiple sclerosis, the condition neuromyelitis optica is a rare autoimmune disorder. The body’s immune system, via auto-antibodies, targets [...]

Cocaine is like a roller coaster in powder form. First, there is the intense rush of euphoria, excitement, and invincibility. Then, almost as quickly, there is the [...]

The immune system exists to fight infection, but it must also know when to rest once that infection is controlled. It’s a balancing act examined in a [...]

In a new study, researchers on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus found that exposing female mice to the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) increased their risk of myocarditis, a rare inflammatory [...]

It is a situation many parents will recognize: a wayward child is throwing a tantrum in a store. The parent takes the child by the [...]

Many viruses are drawn to cancer like iron filings to a magnet. Why not put these viruses to use — finding, infecting and killing cancer [...]

A few years ago, a team of brain cancer researchers ventured a hypothesis. The team wondered whether a particular protein, known as Yes-Associated Protein, or YAP, which [...]