A 30-year-old woman produced a single mass of gray material from her nose during a particularly forceful sneeze several hours before presenting to our clinic. She asked that the material be submitted ...
The protein called intelectin-2 plays another important role by reinforcing the protective mucus layer that lines the ...
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 that the body’s early immune response, not the virus itself, often determines how severe a rhinovirus cold ...
Your chances of catching a cold—and how miserable it feels—may depend more on your body than on the virus itself.
The mucosal surfaces that line the body are embedded with defensive molecules that help keep microbes from causing inflammation and infections. Among these molecules are lectins—proteins that ...
The winding trail of environmental microplastics leads researchers to the human digestive ecosystem. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food and water, personal space is ...
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