SINGAPORE: Several hospitals in Singapore have been seeing more cases of older adults at risk of malnutrition in the past two years, due to factors like multiple chronic illnesses and appetite changes ...

Fred Ramsdel, 65, a senior advisor at U.S.-based BioTherapeutics and one of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ...

A US-Japanese trio on Monday won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for research into how the immune system is kept in check by ...

Peripheral immune tolerance is one way the body helps keep the immune system from getting out of whack and attacking your own ...

A Bay Area-based scientist has been awarded one of the world’s highest honors in medicine, The Nobel Foundation announced early Monday morning.

A man with type 1 diabetes produces his own insulin after receiving genetically-modified donor islet cells, without the need ...

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries about how the ...

Regulatory T cells help your immune system distinguish between ‘self’ and ‘nonself’ – and can open doors to better treatments ...

Ramsdell, who earned his Ph.D. in 1987 from the University of California, Los Angeles, was recognized by his alma mater for ...

Their discoveries have advanced treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases and may improve transplant success.

Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for uncovering a process that prevents the immune system from attacking our own tissues, called ...

By revealing how the immune system is kept in check, the laureates have not only solved a fundamental biological riddle but also opened practical routes to treat diseases that affect millions worldwid ...