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

Researchers have identified an enzyme that controls the maturation and long-term survival of tissue-resident macrophages.

Study findings map out a new way in which antiviral signals engage with cellular metabolism to balance defense and repair.

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer ...

Scientists at KAIST have found a way to turn a tumor’s own immune cells into powerful cancer fighters—right inside the body.

Macrophages are the specialized phagocytic cells that respond to toxic particle depositions to exert inflammatory and clearance responses. These long-lived immune cells engulf foreign substances like ...

The understanding of how macrophages regulate their response to toxic particles via two independent pathways could uncover therapeutic opportunities to quell inflammation BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Human ...