The common cold is so ubiquitous that it feels like background noise, yet for a subset of people it is a wrecking ball that ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Scientists found that nasal cells act as a first line of defense against the common cold, working together to block ...

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

As winter settles in and the annual surge of respiratory illnesses begins, most people view the common cold as an inevitable nuisance. However, new research is revealing that the battle against the ...

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

Trying to understand why the common cold hits some people hard – sometimes leading to serious medical complications – but ...

The range of effects caused by rhinoviruses – the pathogens responsible for the common cold – motivated scientists at Yale University to study the human nasal epithelium and uncover a previously ...

A rapid interferon response from nasal epithelial cells induces a cascade of responses during infection, from reduced viral ...