Millions of people who recover from infections like COVID-19, influenza and glandular fever are affected by long-lasting ...

Mice with a handful of cancerous cells in their lungs experienced a 100-fold increase to this number after being infected ...

Common respiratory infections like COVID and the flu could awaken dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs and lead to ...

Certain respiratory infections could trigger a reawakening of dormant cancer cells in the body, according to a new study.

In a related study between May and December 2021, NIMHANS evaluated 116 patients who developed neurological issues within 42 ...

Hidden in the lungs of some breast cancer survivors are tumour cells that can remain dormant for decades — until they one day ...

COVID-19 didn’t directly cause the cancer to spread, but created an environment where dormant cells elsewhere in patients’ ...

A groundbreaking study using AI has revealed how ME/CFS disrupts critical connections between the immune system, gut ...

The Covid pandemic marked the first time people armed with powerful scientific tools could study how the immune system awakens to and develops defenses against a new threat, in real time, in the ...

University of Virginia researchers uncover immune system changes linked to lung damage in Long COVID patients, offering hope for personalized treatments to address lingering respiratory complications.

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By contrast, existing vaccines use mRNAs to produce specific proteins to be targeted by the immune system ‒ the spike protein of the virus that causes COVID-19, or, with cancer vaccines under ...