Several host factors such as allergic sensitization, epithelial barrier defense and virus-induced interferon responses modify the risk of asthma inception and virus-induced wheezing, and these ...

Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection – among them, raising the minimum number of viral particles needed to cause sickness.

The patient was treated and recovered, and Casanova’s team began their search for the cause of her illness ... the production of antiviral molecules called interferons. “In any cell in the body, when ...

Image Credit: Sino Biological Inc. Ability to induce Interferon-gamma secretion by human natural killer lymphoma NK-92 cells. Image Credit: Sino Biological Inc. Batch-to-batch Consistency.