However, they may also affect the brain. Your gut-brain axis is also connected through the immune system. Gut and gut microbes play an important role in your immune system and inflammation by ...

Most humans have long-lived infections in various tissues—including in the nervous system—that typically do not result in ...

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Some researchers have described the period running up to someone developing ME/CFS and long COVID, as a “prodromal” phase. In ...

As we get older, the essential cleaning processes that our brains need to keep functioning start to break down and fail.

The immune system is the body’s tool for preventing or limiting infection. Its complex network of cells, organs, proteins, and tissues enables the immune system to defend the body from pathogens.

Researchers have discovered that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines have a persistent effect on the innate immune system. These mechanisms may help the human body to better protect itself against potential ...

Kipnis is an expert in the blossoming field of neuroimmunology, the study of how the immune system affects the brain in ...

or swelling of the brain, and there are 1 or 2 deaths per 1,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The virus can wipe out the immune system, a complication called ...

Brain cancer remains one of medicine's most formidable challenges, requiring sophisticated treatment approaches tailored to ...