Fighting off pathogens is a tour de force that must happen with speed and precision. A team of researchers at CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and at ...

This seemingly red-hot macrophage is one of the key components of the human immune system. These cells identify, engulf, and destroy pathogens and allergens that enter our bodies and clean up cellular ...

Zinc has been found to be important in keeping lung infections at bay in people with cystic fibrosis, whose immune cells' natural bacteria-fighting ability has been reduced by the genetic mutation ...

University of Queensland researchers have identified an opportunity to reduce infections in people living with cystic fibrosis. CF is a chronic disease in which defects in the CFTR (cystic fibrosis ...