When a rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of the common cold, infects the lining of our nasal passages, our cells work ...

A new study shows the intricacies of the cold virus and how it interacts with nasal airway cells, revealing why some people ...

A new study suggests the answer may come down to what happens inside your snoot. Researchers found that how cells in the ...

A new study shows that the body’s early immune response, not the virus itself, often determines how severe a rhinovirus cold ...

Cold severity hinges on nasal immune timing, with fast interferon release stopping rhinovirus early and delayed responses allowing widespread infection and symptoms.

Learn how the body’s earliest immune defenses can stop a common cold before symptoms appear.

As winter settles in and the annual surge of respiratory illnesses begins, most people view the common cold as an inevitable nuisance. However, new research is revealing that the battle against the ...

Your chances of catching a cold—and how miserable it feels—may depend more on your body than on the virus itself.

Trying to understand why the common cold hits some people hard – sometimes leading to serious medical complications – but ...

A rapid interferon response from nasal epithelial cells induces a cascade of responses during infection, from reduced viral ...

Investigators studied expression of type I interferons, key pathogenic drivers in systemic lupus erythematosus and lupus nephritis.

March 31, 2010 — A blood test may soon be able to identify which patients with multiple sclerosis will and will not respond to beta interferon. Only a reported two-thirds of patients with ...