Patients with end-stage kidney disease who have spent years on transplant waitlists now face a new clinical reality: two ...

Changes to pathogens’ ability to infect particular hosts (“host tropism”) often dictate modern infectious disease outbreaks. Lyme disease bacteria present a suitable model to study the molecular ...

Complement component 3, often called C3, is an essential protein of the immune system. This protein plays a vital role in the body’s innate immune system, providing the first line of defense against ...

Los Angeles-class submarine USS Newport News (SSN-750) makes its way down the Thames River after departing Submarine Base New London in Groton, Conn., for the final time on Jan. 16, 2026, as it heads ...

Quantum computers—devices that process information using quantum mechanical effects—have long been expected to outperform classical systems on certain tasks. Over the past few decades, researchers ...

Antibiotic resistance has steadily accelerated in recent years to become a global health crisis with estimates of more than 10 million worldwide deaths per year by 2050. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria ...

A complement C4 (also known as a complement component 4, or simply C4) is a test to measure the level of C4 proteins you have in your blood. These proteins play a role in how your immune system ...

In this study, the authors administered heat-inactivated L. kefiri YRC2606 to aged mice for eight weeks and investigated its impact on their immune functions. The researchers observed that YRC2606 ...

Complement 3 glomerulopathy (C3G) is a rare kidney disease that affects your body’s innate immune system (complement system). Complement 3 glomerulopathy (C3G) is a kidney disease that’s caused by ...

In myasthenia gravis, complement plays a big role in what happens to the muscle end of the neuromuscular junction, explains Miriam Freimer, MD, an author on 5 abstracts presented at the recent 15th ...

Do you find yourself nagging your partner about things they simply don't seem to care about, while they do the same to you? The solution isn't trying to change each other. Instead, it's learning to ...