Unlike infectious agents, cancer cells originate from the patient themselves and can therefore evade immune surveillance. The ...

For many conditions including immune-related ones, genetics often explains only a small fraction of the differences between ...

Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, attacking harmful invaders while protecting your own tissues ...

By electrically stimulating macrophages, scientists at Trinity College Dublin have found a way to calm inflammation and ...

That common belief that your immune system inevitably deteriorates with age might be more myth than reality. While conventional wisdom has long held that immune function naturally declines as we get ...

Shimon Sakaguchi discovered T-reg immune cells. Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell identified the cells’ role in autoimmune disease.

Hypoxia due to impaired lung function or high altitude led to epigenetic changes in the genome of neutrophils, cells ...

The endocannabinoid system is one of the most diffuse neurotransmitter systems in the body and the brain. Understanding its ...

A new preliminary study published in Nature suggests that COVID-19 vaccines might actually boost the immune system to make ...

Metabolism guides the activation states of regulatory T cells, the immune cells that prevent inappropriate activation of the ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden ‒ American scientists Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi from Japan won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their discoveries in controlling ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of different microbes trying to invade our ...