When our body fights an infection, the immune system must quickly activate defenses and trigger a beneficial inflammatory ...

Multiple system atrophy is a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disease, where insoluble inclusions of the protein alpha-synuclein appear in oligodendrocyte cells of the brain. The resulting ...

Bonn, November 8, 2022 - The innate immune system fights infectious agents. The alarm messenger interferon plays a central role in this. However, if it is produced in the absence of an infection, it ...

Researchers have discovered that Type I interferon (IFN) plays a key role in helping the immune system effectively target viruses, while stopping white blood cells from 'going rogue' and attacking the ...

A common cold can feel like a small thing until it is not. One day you feel fine, and the next you wake up congested, drained ...

Who knows why different people have different symptoms with the common cold? Well, a new study used laboratory-grown noses ...

These intercellular messages, ferried about by molecules called interferons, serve as a warning signal to nearby cells—“‘You are about to be infected; it’s time for you to set up an antiviral state,’” ...

A new study shows that about two percent of the population develop autoantibodies against type 1 interferons, mostly later in life. This makes individuals more susceptible to viral diseases like COVID ...

A new study shows type I interferon fine-tunes macrophage mitochondria through the protein ISG15, boosting dead-cell ...