The immune system is the body’s tool for preventing or limiting infection. Its complex network of cells, organs, proteins, and tissues enables the immune system to defend the body from pathogens. A ...

The immune system protects the body against illness and infection that bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites can cause. It is a collection of reactions and responses that the body makes to damaged ...

Deep-sea anglerfishes employ an incredible reproductive strategy. Tiny dwarfed males become permanently attached to relatively gigantic females, fuse their tissues and then establish a common blood ...

One of the most important things standing between you and a deadly infection is your immune system – the intricate, biological defence mechanism that protects your body from harmful invaders. And ...

When you're feeling fit as a fiddle, you tend not to think too much about your immune system. But given that we're in the middle of cold and flu season, chances are many of us are wondering how our ...

Siglecs are sialic-acid-binding immunoglobulin-like lectins that are mostly expressed by cells of the immune system. Siglecs can be divided into two subsets based on their sequence similarity and ...

A peek inside some leading research labs shows how scientists-turned-detectives are painstakingly decoding what causes ...

As we wrote in our book Demystifying Psychiatry, psychiatry is the “medical specialty that deals with disorders affecting the human mind and behavior.” Psychiatrists are interested in the mechanisms ...

Your immune system is your body’s version of the military: sworn to defend against all who threaten it, both foreign and domestic. It has some really interesting ...

A peek inside some leading research labs shows how scientists-turned-detectives are painstakingly decoding what causes ...