I think everyone knows that getting a good night’s sleep is essential to a person’s good health. We all know that sleep ...

Getting a good night's rest is vital to your well-being and health. According to a new study, losing sleep can negatively ...

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. Aortic dissection is a life-threatening condition with complex immunological underpinnings.

Yet as a new study suggests, even a single night of sleep deprivation may cause significant upheaval in the immune system, ...

When we think of type 2 diabetes, images of heart problems or kidney damage often come to mind. But lurking quietly behind these well-known complications is another serious threat—bone disease.

In this application note, explore how scientists can couple a serum-free medium with a xeno-free serum replacement to effectively culture functional monocyte-derived dendritic cells and macrophages.

Confirming its protective effect in WNE, cessation of PLX5622 treatment exacerbated disease scores and was associated with robust repopulation of microglia, rebound BM monopoiesis and markedly ...

Monocyte differentiation under conditions of inflammation has been studied in considerable detail. In contrast, monocyte differentiation under non-inflammatory conditions remains less well understood.

Unlike monocytes cultured in vitro with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and M-CSF, which differentiate into dendritic cells (moDCs) and macrophages (moMs), respectively, ...

Human skin, the barrier between the body and the outside world, is home to diverse microorganisms, some of which can promote immunity or fight invaders. Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, ...