Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi were awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for ...

Regulatory T cells help your immune system distinguish between ‘self’ and ‘nonself’ – and can open doors to better treatments for cancer, autoimmune disease and transplant rejection.

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi were awarded the prize for research showing how the body regulates its ...

Scientists at DKFZ and Heidelberg University Hospital discovered that brain grid cells, once thought to act as a fixed GPS, ...

Three scientists who uncovered how our body keeps our immune system in check — enabling it to fight off dangerous invaders ...

Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt researchers have built the first lung-on-a-chip with a working immune system, a breakthrough with ...

Japanese scientists successfully eliminated cancer tumors using live bacteria, a new therapy that acts independently of the ...

Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered cells that protect the body from autoimmune diseases.

For years, the pancreas has been being taught in biology class as an easy system: insulin lowers blood sugar, and glucagon raises it. But that’s much too simple, new research says.

Zeaxanthin, an eye health nutrient, boosted tumor-fighting T cells and slowed cancer growth in mice. Human trials are still needed.

When a key protein regulator dials down DNA repair mechanisms, our cells accumulate more mutations, which may cause us to age ...

The sea lamprey looks like it’s from another planet, but this ancient creature has a surprising amount in common with humans ...