People with Sweet's syndrome often wake up with a fever, body aches, and blisters on their neck, limbs and face. Also known ...

New research maps how bone marrow changes in acute myeloid leukemia disrupt neutrophil development and boost the risk for ...

White blood cells (WBCs) in our bodies help fight infections. There are various types of WBCs; each has its own way of fighting microbial infections. The most important WBC is called the neutrophil.

Bold text indicates ineffectiveness in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and/or development stopped. Data taken from [109]. No external funding for this study was used. The ...

Cancer immunotherapies that recruit a patient's own immune system to destroy tumors have transformed the treatment of many types of cancer. Yet these therapies do not elicit universally good treatment ...

Actor and dancer Cha Hyun-seung, 34 years old, who revealed his battle with leukemia, shared an update on his current ...

White blood cells act as the first line of defense in the immune system and are often referred to as an army that protects our body. Neutrophils account for the largest portion (55-70%) of white blood ...

Following an acute heart attack, immune cells called neutrophils coordinate an inflammatory response which can exacerbate the damage to the organ. Now researchers have shown that neutrophils also ...

Using lasers to precisely control white blood cells in living fish, researchers have demonstrated that some of the body’s native cells can be “remotely controlled” to accomplish a variety of tasks in ...

Gallstones form in the gallbladder, a bile-storing organ, and can be as tiny as a grain of sand or as big as a golf ball. They’re hard and unsurprisingly, they can be painful and can cause nausea and ...