This Research Topic is the second volume of "The Role of Complement in Health and Disease" Community Series. Please see volume I here. The complement system is a crucial mediator of the innate immune ...

The human complement system has a pivotal role in the recognition, opsonization and elimination of microbial intruders. This functionality is maintained by a well-balanced interaction network of serum ...

Chronic and viral infections can literally exhaust certain key cells in the immune system from a constant barrage of attacks.

Afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining. My name is Rajan Sharma, European pharma and biotech analyst here at Goldman Sachs. Very pleased to have argenx with us this afternoon for the last ...

A new review was published in Volume 13 of Oncoscience on May 22, 2026, titled "Adaptor proteins regulating tumor-associated macrophage polarization during cancer progression." ...

Lectins are glycan-binding proteins that are involved in numerous biological processes including cell development, cell–cell interactions, or signal transduction. In innate immunity, lectins mainly ...

Some earlier studies have also reported elevated levels of complement proteins in serum of schizophrenia patients 27, 28. C4 in the central nervous system C4 is a critical component of the classical ...

Inflammation and immune mechanisms are crucially involved in the pathophysiology of the development, acute damage cascades, and chronic course after ischemic stroke. Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory ...

cRenal Division, Department of Medicine, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing Key Laboratory of Research, Development and Translational Application of Multimodal Intelligent Diagnosis and ...

† Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland QLD 4059, Australia ‡ Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, 306 ...

Changes to pathogens’ ability to infect particular hosts (“host tropism”) often dictate modern infectious disease outbreaks. Lyme disease bacteria present a suitable model to study the molecular ...