As scientists question the rise in early colon cancer cases, a new study is offering some potential answers. Colored scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a macrophage white blood cell (center ...

The team focused on the so-called Kupffer cells. These are macrophages—so-called "big eaters"—that help protect the body as part of the innate immune system. During embryonic development ...

Monocytes and macrophages are myeloid cells that have important innate immune functions. Macrophages reside in tissues and respond to infection by producing inflammatory mediators and engulfing ...

Hyderabad: A team of researchers from Andhra Pradesh, in collaboration with scientists from Saudi Arabia and the UAE, has developed a novel drug delivery system for colon cancer using cross-linked ...

Four already-approved drugs eased pain and shrank lesions in mice. Doctors share what that could mean for you.

This colorized abdominal X-ray shows cancer of the ascending colon; the tumor appears as the oval shadow over the right pelvic bone (left on image). Colorectal cancer is often thought to ...

Cells taken from the lungs of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have a larger accumulation of soot-like carbon deposits compared to cells taken from people who smoke but do not ...

Now, a groundbreaking study from researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School is offering a potential new path forward: using already FDA-approved migraine medications to ...

Even brief exposure to tobacco smoke can trigger inflammation, weaken immunity, and raise cancer risk in organs far beyond ...

Trained immunity is a form of innate immune cell memory that is being developed as a novel immunotherapeutic approach for cancer treatment.

The addition of postsurgical atezolizumab immunotherapy to standard-of-care chemotherapy in patients with stage III deficient DNA mismatch repair (dMMR) colon cancer significantly improved ...