Your immune system is a network of cells, tissues, and organs that fight off infection. Your immune system can be affected by ...

Three immunologists won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of a special group of immune cells called regulatory T-cells.

Regulatory T-cells, or Tregs, called the body's "security guards" by the Nobel committee, help stop the immune system from ...

The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to three scientists for discovering how a particular kind of cell can stop the body's ...

Tom Anchordoquy receives funding for this work from the Nationals Institutes of Health through grant # RO1 CA289447. When the first cells appeared on Earth approximately 3.8 billion years ago, viruses ...

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 ...

The innate response's job is to assess the threat and determine how best to handle it. When it has a firm grasp on the situation, and if it can't deal with the threat itself, the innate response ...

Having a robust enough immune system to live a longer life may come at the cost of chronic inflammation. Some immune cells undergo an inflammatory form of death that evolved to protect us from ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Think of vaccines as a personal trainer for a particular sport (disease). They train your immune system how to ...

Cancer immunotherapy has historically focused on harnessing the ability of T cells to recognize and attack cancer cells. Adaptive immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) unleash tumor-infiltrating ...

Cancer immunotherapy, which primes the body's immune system to fight off tumors, has historically focused on harnessing T cells' natural ability to recognize and attack cancer cells. While this ...

Cancer immunotherapy, which primes the body's immune system to fight off tumors, has historically focused on harnessing T cells' natural ability to recognize and attack cancer cells. While this ...