Your immune system harbors a lifetime's worth of information about threats it's encountered - a biological Rolodex of baddies. Often the perpetrators are viruses and bacteria you've conquered; others ...
Antiphospholipid syndrome, also known as APS, is an autoimmune disease that sits at the intersection of inflammation and blood clotting. Antiphospholipid syndrome is best known for increasing the risk ...
Whenever the immune system fights a pathogen, it has a memory of that experience, whether it's with an invader or a vaccine that mimics an infection, for example. Scientists have now developed a way ...
A recent study by researchers from Institute of Science Tokyo unveils the molecular mechanisms explaining why some "stealth" ...
For decades, aging has looked like an unavoidable slide into frailty, driven in part by an immune system that slowly loses ...
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Scientists are trying a revolutionary new approach to treat rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, lupus and ...
Colorectal cancer has long baffled scientists because, unlike most tumors, patients often do better when their cancers are ...