Microplastics are ubiquitous in the environment, and we all routinely inhale these tiny pollutants. Now, new research published at the ATS 2025 International Conference has found that inhaled ...

Trillions of microbes live in the human gastrointestinal tract, where they play critical roles in our health and biology; they can help us break down food, absorb nutrients; and they affect the immune ...

Vitamins and supplements like zinc and cod liver oil are often touted for their ability to boost your immune system, but Jeffrey Bland, the "father of functional medicine," says that's not actually ...

During the recent Covid-19 pandemic, the rate of serious illness and death was jarringly high in older populations. Why? Weakening immune systems — as we age, we become more vulnerable to infections, ...

The lamprey immune system represents an atypical model of adaptive immunity that diverges fundamentally from the well‐characterised immunoglobulin‐based system of jawed vertebrates. Instead, lampreys ...

Covid-19 taught us valuable lessons. One was the finding of a difference in immune system responses to virus infection among patients. People with certain underlying medical conditions are at a higher ...