Imagine a hidden highway inside your body — one that quietly sweeps away waste, supports radiant immunity, and keeps your ...

Welcome to What’s Up Docs?, the podcast where identical twin doctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken cut through the confusion ...

If you are feeling tired, bloated or puffy-faced, could your lymphatic system be the problem? Surprisingly for such an unglamorous subject, lymph is a hot topic on social media, while attention to ...

Think of your lymphatic system as a hardworking network quietly managing waste removal, immunity, and fluid balance. To keep the lymphatic system functioning smoothly, it is key to ensure your body ...

For years, it has been a mainstay of treatment to stop the spread of many cancers. But is the removal of lymph nodes – tiny, bean-shaped nodules that filter waste and bacteria – really the best way to ...

A team of researchers, led by the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute), explored the cellular and molecular interactions revealing how lymph nodes play a crucial role ...

A new method to keep human lymph node tissue alive and functioning outside the body for several days could give researchers a much clearer view of how our immune system responds to infections, ...

Scientists with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have created an engineered model of the supportive tissue found within a lymph node to study human health. Working with scientists at ...

Thankfully, I don't have anyone living downstairs, because this experiment involved a lot of jumping. The reason for my early-morning jump sessions? I decided to test the viral lymphatic drainage ...

While we tend to quickly forget having been ill or having received a vaccine, the immune system remembers remarkably well. It ...

In almost all solid tumors—i.e. cancers with a solid tissue structure—the detection of tumor cells in the lymph nodes is considered a decisive marker for the progression of the disease. Lymph node ...