A new study suggests that people may experience the same virus differently based on how quickly the cells in their noses ...

Using a laboratory model of the human nose, scientists have investigated why the severity of common-cold infections varies so widely between individuals.

A common cold affects people differently. While some suffer from mild symptoms, for others, it can be life-threatening. A new ...

A common cold can feel like a small thing until it is not. One day you feel fine, and the next you wake up congested, drained ...

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

New research suggests this divide begins almost the moment you’re exposed. A study from Yale University finds that the earliest responses from the cells lining your nose (triggered within hours of ...

Who knows why different people have different symptoms with the common cold? Well, a new study used laboratory-grown noses ...

When our body fights an infection, the immune system must quickly activate defenses and trigger a beneficial inflammatory ...

When a rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of the common cold, infects the lining of our nasal passages, our cells work together to fight the virus by triggering an arsenal of antiviral defenses. In a ...

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