Your blood cells work tirelessly to keep you alive, carrying oxygen throughout your body and fighting off infections. But hidden in your daily meals are foods that can silently compromise these vital ...

Get to know the functions of your heart, blood vessels, and blood itself and how they work together to maintain your health.

From the moment they're born, newborns—or, specifically, their immune systems—must learn to fight germs without harming their ...

Sakaguchi swam against the tide, and in a 1995 paper presented evidence for a new type of T cell “police” that essentially ...

In addition to strengthening the muscles, lungs, and heart, regular physical exercise also strengthens the immune system.

The cell nucleus goes a long way during an immune response, both literally and figuratively. New research published in ...

It develops from the abnormal multiplication of T cells, or T-lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell essential for immune system function. The specific treatment course and prognosis for T-cell ...