An international team of researchers has visualized the structure of the so-called ASC speck. A central component of the human immune system, the NLRP3 inflammasome plays an important role in fighting ...

Successful wound healing relies on precisely balanced inflammation, yet how inflammatory signals are coordinated over time ...

A group of immune proteins called the inflammasome can help prevent blood stem cells from becoming malignant by removing certain receptors from their surfaces and blocking cancer gene activity, ...

Every morning of his life, no matter what he did, a young British man woke up with a fever, a headache, a rash on his trunk and limbs, joint pain, and ever-worsening deafness. His doctors had ...