A new study shows the intricacies of the cold virus and how it interacts with nasal airway cells, revealing why some people are hit harder than others.

When a rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of the common cold, infects the lining of our nasal passages, our cells work ...

Your chances of catching a cold—and how miserable it feels—may depend more on your body than on the virus itself.

The protein called intelectin-2 plays another important role by reinforcing the protective mucus layer that lines the ...

The mucosal surfaces that line the body are embedded with defensive molecules that help keep microbes from causing ...

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have used lab-grown human nasal tissue to show that a fast interferon response can ...

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 ...

To many people, mucus is nothing more than a gross goo, something to be tossed away in a tissue immediately after clearing your throat or blowing your nose. To scientists, it’s nothing short of a ...