UMass Chan Medical School scientist Beth McCormick, PhD, and her team collaborated with researchers at the University of Bath ...

University at Buffalo scientists exploring the nature of immunity after vaccination against Streptococcus pneumoniae, which causes pneumonia in people, have discovered that a specific type of white ...

By Jim FessendenAt a glanceResearchers at UMass Chan Medical School and the University of Bath discovered how neutrophils are guided to infection ...

In a recent review published in the journal Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology, researchers examine the multifaceted roles of neutrophils in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and highlight ...

Macrophages are best known for their Pac Man–like ability to gobble up cellular debris and pathogens in order to thwart infection. A new study describes how these immune cells also help resolve ...

Blood contains two types of neutrophils, a type of white blood cell: mature neutrophils and immature neutrophils. Under normal conditions, most neutrophils are mature and play a role in host defense ...

Tumor cells use a certain type of immune cells, the so-called neutrophils, to enhance their ability to form metastases. Scientists have deciphered the mechanisms of this collaboration and found ...

Growing evidence suggests the peripheral immune system plays a role in Alzheimer’s disease. Now, researchers led by Gabriela Constantin at the University of Verona, Italy, turn the spotlight on an ...

A burst of interferon-beta in the first 24 hours of a viral infection was closely linked to survival in mice and changed how ...