Dendritic cells are important innate immune cells that play a key role in shaping the body’s immune response. These cells mainly arise in the bone marrow and circulate in the blood to reach the sites ...

Physicians have long observed a mystifying phenomenon: After a bout of infection or an autoimmune disease flare-up, some people experience prolonged mood swings, emotional dysregulation, and changes ...

The job of your immune system is to protect your body from harmful foreign substances and keep you healthy. But sometimes your immune system does your body more harm than good. A cytokine storm occurs ...

The world got a little more steeped in cytokine knowledge because of the small protein's role in COVID-19, and, now, Merck will study how cytokines work in autoimmune diseases through a $525 million ...

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center investigators report that T cell interferon-γ (IFNγ) orchestrates a dendritic-cell–natural-killer-cell circuit that suppresses leptomeningeal metastases in mouse ...

When people become gravely ill from COVID-19, a cytokine storm — their body’s own reaction to the virus — may sometimes make things worse. The phenomenon has been described as “an immune system gone ...

At least a dozen treatments are being evaluated for virus patients whose immune systems go on the attack. By Apoorva Mandavilli Many coronavirus patients seem to get better at first, then rapidly ...

Psoriasis, a chronic inflammatory skin condition characterized by dry and scaly skin lesions, affects about 7.5 million people in the United States. Psoriasis results from abnormal proliferation of ...

Stanford scientists have uncovered how mRNA COVID-19 vaccines can very rarely trigger heart inflammation in young men — and ...