Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that gut bacteria help regulate the development of the body's ...

A landmark study due to start in the coming months aims to test a method for rejuvenating our immune system in older age. The ...

Adults with blood cancers who need a stem-cell transplant from a matched donor now have a new option to prevent one of the ...

A protein produced by gut immune cells orchestrates both immune protection against pathogens and immune tolerance of gut ...

A new stem-cell-inspired technique allows scientists to grow vast numbers of immune-cell progenitors that can be engineered ...

The remodelling of the human brain's immune environment by the tuberculosis vaccine BCG could offer a potential biological ...

Researchers found that mRNA cancer vaccines can recruit an unexpected immune cell to launch powerful tumor-fighting responses ...

As scientists gain a deeper understanding of how the body’s immune system remembers pathogens it must fight, the paradigm for ...

While we tend to quickly forget having been ill or having received a vaccine, the immune system remembers remarkably well. It has memory B cells—"trained" immune cells that circulate throughout the ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified a novel mechanism used by the bacteria responsible for gonorrhea to evade ...

The disease attacks astrocytes, which are support cells in the brain and spinal cord. (Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library)/) ...