The brain is typically depicted as a complex web of neurons sending and receiving messages. But neurons only make up half of the human brain. The other half—roughly 85 billion cells—are non-neuronal ...

The buzzy term gets blamed for many diseases. But it isn’t all bad. Credit...Pete Gamlen Supported by By Nina Agrawal Illustrations by Pete Gamlen Inflammation has become a bit of a dirty word. We ...

Understanding the regulation of inflammation and oxidative stress is essential for deciphering the interplay between host defence mechanisms and bacterial survival strategies. In human cells, ...

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) endure abdominal pain, diarrhea, rectal bleeding, and weight loss. As these symptoms develop, the cellular environment in the gut undergoes a dramatic ...

Researchers have established a direct experimental link between inflammatory signals in the intestinal lining and the kind of ...

Inflammation as defined by Dictionary.com is the reaction of the body to injury or infection, characterized by swelling, heat, redness and pain. The inflammatory process includes release of ...

In a recent, cross-institutional study partially funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers report that healthy human airways are at higher risk for dehydration and inflammation when ...

The process of aging is associated with a decline in immune functions and persistent low-level inflammation. Now, researchers from Japan have discovered a strain of Lentilactobacillus capable of ...

Bezisterim appears to possess broad homeostatic properties relevant to inflammation and human disorders related to aging Patients treated with bezisterim experienced 2 to 4 years age deceleration ...

Scientists have created a novel organoid model of the human brain that contains astrocytes -- which have been excluded from other models thus far -- to study inflammation in diseases like Alzheimer's.