Neutrophil extracellular traps may hold clues to the cause of skin lesions in patients with a painful condition called hidradenitis suppurativa.

Worms with the reproduction-related TCER-1 gene deleted could fight off infection for longer and survived better when exposed to heat and radiation.

Researchers are devising ways to prevent viral vectors carrying gene therapies from triggering an immune response.

Mice exposed to heat wave temperatures ate less and showed weakened immune responses to the virus.

This year’s winners also include the developers of nusinersen, an oligonucleotide therapeutic for spinal muscular atrophy.

A preliminary clinical trial finds that the personalized therapy improves survival rates and has no severe side-effects.

Macrophages play numerous roles within tumors, leaving cancer researchers with a choice: eliminate the cells or recruit them.

Researchers explore how blood platelets sweep bacteria into aggregate bundles at sites of infection to help phagocytic cells dispose of them.