After nearly 100 years of development, treatments that bolster the body's immune system to fight cancer are coming of age – ...

Researchers have uncovered how hormones profoundly affect our immune systems, explaining why men and women are affected by diseases differently. Scientists from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and ...

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 ...

Antibodies, which recognize viruses and proteins that the body has encountered before, have long gotten most of the credit for giving the human immune system a memory. Now, researchers at the ...

When the immune system overreacts and starts attacking the body, the only option may be to shut the entire system down and risk developing infections or cancer. Immune cells that are designed to ...

An innovative gene-editing strategy could establish a new way for the body to manufacture therapeutic proteins—including ...

The human body operates like a finely tuned orchestra, with each system playing its part in perfect harmony. However, sometimes this delicate balance breaks down in ways that can leave people ...

Measles can induce immune amnesia, a phenomenon that eliminates acquired immunity to other infectious diseases.

Analysis revealed several key elements of the immune system that changed following treatment, including pathways for inflammatory responses to infections and disease. Among these were TNF-α and IFN-1, ...