Researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina and elsewhere have linked loneliness in patients with chronic leg and foot wounds to increased expression of genes that are related to ...

In a first-of-its-kind genome-wide association study (GWAS) researchers have discovered two genes, RNF144B and ENPP1, that cause calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD) disease in Americans of ...

Inflammation has to fight pathogens fast—but it can't get out of control. Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have now deciphered in more detail how the organism masters this ...

New research shows that the same genes are active in pancreatic cancer, obesity and diabetes, helping to explain why people with metabolic disease often face poorer cancer outcomes and pointing to ...

Bacteria that live peacefully in the human gut can aim molecular syringes at intestinal cells and fire proteins directly into ...

A lab study suggests cyclodextrins may help support myelin sheath repair in MS by reducing harmful fat buildup in immune cells.

Autoantibodies may be disabling one of the body's anti-inflammatory brakes in some IBD patients, a new study finds.