Learn how the body’s earliest immune defenses can stop a common cold before symptoms appear.

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.

Not everyone who gets a cold virus in their nose gets sick. Only about half of infections cause symptoms, Foxman said. To ...

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

To understand how these wintertime nuisances unfold, why they can be so variable and how to make them less miserable, researchers at Yale School of Medicine cultivated miniature models of nasal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's cold and flu season again. (Getty Images) (HUIZENG HU via Getty Images) This time of year, there are a number of viruses ...

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Many people across cultures grow up hearing that cold weather makes you sick. Going outside without a coat, breathing in cold ...

This study shows that SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination generate strong, highly specific spike-binding immune responses ...