Why, after an apparently mild viral infection, do some patients still develop severe forms? Researchers show that the ...

Despite potential benefits, the therapy remains in limited use for myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). Pegylated interferons are a meaningful therapeutic option for the treatment of ...

In a recent study published in Science Immunology, researchers investigated whether individuals with breakthrough infections of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia demonstrated normal ...

When a rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of the common cold, infects the lining of our nasal passages, our cells work together to fight the virus by triggering an arsenal of antiviral defenses. In a ...

CHICAGO — The use of a clinically validated flow cytometry test can assess type 1 and type 2 interferon activity in children with various pediatric inflammatory diseases to evaluate and monitor their ...

In 1980, TIME Magazine wrote about interferon as the “if” drug for cancer. Promising studies sparked widespread hope around the potential of the interferon to treat cancer, only if it could deliver ...

Early this year, when COVID-19 was still a localized outbreak in China, Eleanor Fish, an immunologist at the University of Toronto, reached out to colleagues in Wuhan to explore the possibility of ...

A study from an international team of researchers from the Helmholtz Diabetes Center at Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, the Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science at University of Exeter Medical ...

In severe cases of COVID-19, a person’s immune system throws everything it has at the coronavirus, but some of the weapons it lobs end up hurting the patient instead of fighting the virus. Now ...

Over the past decade, the pharmaceutical pipeline has become packed with small molecules that treat the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Hopes are high that the current standard of care—a combination of ...

Researchers across the planet are racing to harness one of the immune system’s front-line defenders as an early treatment for covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus that has killed more than ...