Arachnology and toxinology have increasingly illuminated the structural, biochemical and evolutionary diversity of venom ...

A new study may have found what’s behind long COVID symptoms. Scientists say a portion of the immune system may stay activated after someone recovers from the virus. Research into what causes long ...

Long Covid has long eluded scientists looking for its cause. Not knowing what triggers its persistent and distressing symptoms makes the condition challenging to treat; it’s hard to even say ...

The complement system, a central component of innate immunity, exerts a dual influence on cerebral ischaemia, driving both acute tissue injury and later reparative processes. Following arterial ...

The story of Q32 Bio, a company that develops therapeutics for inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, started two decades ago. That's when V. Michael Holers, MD, a University of Colorado School of ...

Allergic asthma is driven by a complex interplay between innate and adaptive immunity in which the complement system plays a central role. Activation of complement via the classical, lectin or ...

Our immune system is armed with an array of defenses designed to detect and eliminate harmful threats. One of its most powerful defense mechanisms is the complement system-a group of proteins that ...