Node Smith, ND Researchers with the Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases at the Cumming School of Medicine (CSM) have discovered which gut bacteria help our immune system battle cancerous tumors [...]

Node Smith, ND Sometimes cancer stays put, but often it metastasizes, spreading to new locations in the body. It has long been suspected that genetic mutations arising inside tumor cells drive [...]

Node Smith, ND One of the defining features of Covid-19 is the excessive immune response that can occur in severe cases. This burst of immune overreaction, also called a cytokine storm, damages [...]

Tolle Causam  Lauren Tessier, ND At the turn of the 20th century, Paul Ehrlich, the immunologist and biologist who discovered a cure for then-rampant syphilis, coined the term [...]

Node Smith, ND The expression of many genes that have previously been associated with autism is abnormal and is also in violent psychopathy, a new study shows. The researchers used stem cell [...]

Tolle Causam Angela Knapp, ND A 2018 study, published in Archives of Neuropsychiatry, found an association between Mannose-Binding Lectin 2 (MBL2) genetic variants and obsessive-compulsive [...]

Tolle Totum Lisa Ghent, ND Atopic diseases are a collection of problems that arise when the immune system has an exaggerated IgE-mediated response to what are normally harmless antigens.1 Atopic [...]

Student Scholarship – Second Place Research Review Stephanie Berg, ND Baljit Khamba, ND, MPH Sabrina Koperski, ND In July 2018, J.A., a 54-year-old Caucasian female, presented to the Bastyr [...]

Node Smith, ND Inside a cell, death often occurs like the wave at a baseball game What starts with two hands flung skyward prompts another, and another, until the wave has rippled far and wide [...]

Node Smith, ND Unexpected findings show that the body’s own immune system destroys retinal cells Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Glaucoma, a disease that afflicts nearly 70 million people [...]