A new study reveals that chronic stress activates immune cells that travel to the brain, amplify inflammation, and heighten fear responses.

Researchers have developed engineered human microglia that detect disease-related brain changes and release therapeutic ...

A new way to deliver disease-fighting proteins throughout the brain may improve the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders, according to University of California, Irvine ...

Microplastics discovered in life-threatening arterial plaque are associated with strokes. A new study found altered gene ...

The risk of cancer goes up with age, in part because aging impedes the body's ability to detect and destroy cells with ...

Microglia can be engineered to detect disease-specific brain changes – like amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s disease – and ...

Just visualise the scenario where you spend years of your life building up a defence team in your body that remembers every ...

Fred Hutch and MSK researchers showed that tumors driven by hiccups in RNA processing can't hid from the immune system. In ...

A new study suggests that fear and the immune system are connected in previously unknown ways. Researchers found that the immune system can influence stress and fear behaviors by changing how brain ...

Compromised antigen presentation ranks among the top mechanisms that render cancers non-immunogenic (non-responsive to immune ...