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The gut microbiome is clearly important to health, and changes in the composition of the gut microbiome influence the progression...

Once past the early stages, an atherosclerotic plaque in a blood vessel wall grows by drawing in and killing macrophage cells of the

Sepsis is a state of runaway inflammation resulting from infection, in which inflammatory signaling becomes so intense that organs fail under the stress. Crudely, one might think of initiation of sepsis as a tipping point between the normal balance of initiation and suppression of ...

Every cell contains hundreds of mitochondria, the descendants of ancient symbiotic bacteria that have by now evolved into components of the cell. Much of their original bacterial genome has migrated into the

No part of the body is truly isolated; all organs, systems, and cell populations interact with all of the others in various ways. Cells secrete and take up countless varieties of molecules and vesicles, carried throughout the body by the