Findings from a new study, led by researchers at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine and published in Nature Immunology, ...

A fully functioning immune system is essential to help the body maintain good health, and macrophages play a critical role in ...

In this article, we focus on two related types of immune cell – the monocyte and the macrophage. We discuss what monocytes and macrophages are, how they are generated, their functions in the body and ...

A new study shows that an abnormally active immune system, a characteristic of long COVID patients, largely subsides two ...

The macrophage is one of the body's most important inhabitants. Meaning "big eater" in Greek, this immune cell consumes and digests problematic elements from microbes and cancer cells to dust and ...

The research focused on macrophage cells. When a person consumes protein, they're also consuming leucine. The amino acid triggers the development of macrophage cells in the blood. Leucine is in animal ...

Whether human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells (hUC-MSCs) could heal luminal ulcers in Crohn’s disease.

Sepsis is a life-threatening disease with no therapies approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) and a high unmet medical need. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

Medical implants could fail less often when coated with a microscopically crinkled, ceramic material designed by researchers ...