Sepsis remains a major challenge in modern medicine, claiming millions of lives each year. For decades, clinical management ...

Between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, the study of biology was intimately intertwined with progress in medicine. So how, when and where did research into the life sciences begin? You have ...

Dendritic cells (DCs) are increasingly recognized as important contributors to sepsis-associated immune dysfunction. As professional antigen-presenting cells, they bridge innate sensing and durable ...

A new study reveals that astrocytes—star-shaped support cells traditionally viewed as passive partners of neurons—play a ...