The immune system is the body’s tool for preventing or limiting infection. Its complex network of cells, organs, proteins, and tissues enables the immune system to defend the body from pathogens.

Immune checkpoint inhibitors have changed the future of cancer care. These powerful treatments use the body’s own immune ...

Maintaining good overall health is key to living a long life, but we may want to particularly focus on the state of our brain ...

In particular, tissue softness—part of the tumor's mechanical microenvironment—plays a key role in how effectively the body's immune system can detect and fight cancer cells.

To reduce the body's rejection response – which can impair the effectiveness of neural implants – an international team of ...

For the millions of Americans battling autoimmune disorders, new hope may be on the horizon in the form of reverse or inverse ...

A breast cancer vaccine targeting a key protein showed strong immune responses in over 75 percent of its trial participants ...

Knowable Magazine reports that worm-inspired treatments show promise for metabolic diseases by reducing inflammation and ...

Just as infection signals imbalance in Western medicine, in te ao Māori it indicates a deeper disharmony that requires ...

People living with HIV face unique oral health challenges that require special attention and care. The virus's impact on the ...

The study, published March 6 in Nature Medicine, shows that the brain’s immune cells, called microglia, play a more powerful ...

Participants with the fastest-ageing brains were 12 times more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than contemporaries with brains about 10 years younger, according to the research. Having an ...