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 ...

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon. Background: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a leading cause of global mortality, characterized by chronic ...

Innate immune evasion is a critical aspect of viral infections, as it disrupts the host’s defense mechanisms.The innate immune system, as the primary defense against pathogens, detects ...

Summary: Alzheimer’s disease affects over 55 million people worldwide and has long been linked to toxic protein buildup and chronic inflammation in the brain. A new review shows that adaptive immune ...

A Trinity College Dublin team has discovered that electrical stimulation can reprogram macrophages to suppress inflammation and accelerate healing, opening the door to new therapeutic possibilities.

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 ...

When the first cells appeared on Earth approximately 3.8 billion years ago, viruses were already here to greet them. Ever since, viruses have been devising ways to infect cells, and cells have been ...