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Our immune system is armed with an array of defenses designed to detect and eliminate harmful threats. One of its most powerful defense mechanisms is the complement system-a group of proteins that ...

Harvard researchers have found that M. morganii may contribute to depression by producing an inflammatory molecule.

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A person who has the type of anemia with B12 deficiency and low B12 levels (called "megaloblastic anemia" with unusual white ...

Mitochondria, often seen as cellular powerhouses, play a surprising role in immune regulation. Researchers found that ...

Be it from tap water on a vacation, some dodgy chicken, or something the kids have brought home from school, we've almost all been flattened by an awful stomach bug at some point in our lives. For ...

After combing through 4,000 existing medications, an artificial intelligence tool helped uncover one that saved the life of a patient with idiopathic multicentric Castleman's disease (iMCD).

The patient has iMCD, which has a poor survival rate and few treatment options but an AI tool searched through 4,000 ...

An infectious disease MD explains for how long you're likely to transmit the flu to others, with her advice for preventing viral infection.