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Blocking the action of calcium signals in immune cells suppresses the most common form of asthma, but without compromising the body’s defenses against flu viruses, a new study finds.

A new study has revealed that metabolism is more disturbed in patients with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes than previously thought.

Research found no link between community water fluoridation and adverse effects on children’s brain development.

Researchers from Inserm, CNRS, Sorbonne University and clinicians from the AP-HP and at Paris Brain Institute identified one of the mechanisms explaining ketamine effect as an antidepressant.

Military personnel deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq have been shown to retain dust from their deployment in their lungs, potentially causing persistent respiratory disease.

Levels of key immune-signaling molecules in the vagina undergo clear and consistent fluctuations during the menstrual cycle, scientists report. The findings could help understand the immune systems' role in fertility and aid vaccine development.

The droughts of summer 2022 were made 20 times more likely as a result of human-related climate change, according to a new report.

A new study shows that individual differences in our DNA matter less as we get older and become prone to diseases of aging, such as diabetes and cancer.

Researchers from Hokkaido University and Toppan have developed a method to detect build-up of amyloid beta in the brain, a characteristic of Alzheimer's disease, from biomarkers in blood samples.

NIH scientists shed light on how genetic architecture determines gene expression, tissue-specific function and disease phenotype in blinding diseases.