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Immune molecules called cytokines play important roles in the body's defense against infection, helping to control ...

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Scientists have long struggled to define brain fog—let alone pinpoint a cause for it. But research is starting to reveal ...

Most serious measles cases come down to the virus’s effect on the lungs, but the virus is also capable of infecting the brain ...

New research reveals how the simple nervous system of C. elegans worms can dramatically reconfigure itself to survive infection.

Physicians have long observed a mystifying phenomenon: After a bout of infection or an autoimmune disease flare-up, some ...

Most cases of nocardiosis start out as lung infections, in which pus-filled cavities, or abscesses containing the bacteria, form in the lungs. This can cause symptoms such as chest pain, a cough ...

Upon infection, the C. elegans worm reshuffles the roles of brain cells and flips the functions of some of the chemicals it ...

Oregon State University researchers have discovered a way to get anti-inflammatory medicine across the blood-brain barrier, ...