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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Google DeepMind’s AI model generated a ‘novel hypothesis’ about how cancer cells behave, confirmed through lab experiments.

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 ...

Even small amounts of bisphenol A can lead to long-term health effects. When researchers studied adult rats exposed in the ...

Endurance exercise may train the immune system as much as the muscles. Older adults with decades of running or cycling had ...

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

A humble kitchen spice could pack a powerful antiviral punch. Researchers have found that compounds in cardamom seeds can ...

The researchers found that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines could potentially help patients whose tumors don’t respond well to ...