What makes cancer an especially insidious disease is its ability to evade your own body’s defenses. Tumors have a host of ...

Your immune system is designed to protect you from toxins, infections, harmful viruses and bacteria, and to destroy abnormal cells, like cancer. When immune system cells encounter these potential ...

Developed by Cuban and Argentine scientists, Vaxira uses molecular mimicry to train the immune system to recognise and attack ...

For decades, HIV treatment has depended on one hard truth: once medication stops, the virus usually comes roaring back. Modern antiretroviral drugs can suppress HIV so effectively that many people ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — In the march of metastasis, a molecular trail of crumbs guides some cancer cells from the primary tumor to establish new colonies within the body. Blocking the cells’ ability to ...

While we tend to quickly forget having been ill or having received a vaccine, the immune system remembers remarkably well. It ...

The research groups led by Wolfgang Kastenmüller and Georg Gasteiger employed innovative microscopy techniques to observe how specific immune cells, known as T-cells, are activated and proliferate ...

Scientists have discovered that the female immune system is better at fighting infections, but it increases the risk of lupus.

A study published in Nature Aging has detailed this cellular transformation. The findings demonstrate that immunosenescence, ...

Most people reach for a supplement bottle at the first sign of a sniffle. It's a familiar routine, and the global market for immunity-boosting products reflects just how widespread it is. Yet a ...