"Peacemaker" immune cells could help treat diseases ranging from type 1 diabetes to neurodegeneration by restoring immune ...

Immunotherapies – treatments that aim to make the body's natural immune system more effective – are becoming more widely used ...

For the immune system to effectively combat pathogens, antibody responses must be precisely controlled. So-called follicular ...

A first-in-human clinical trial of an immune rejuvenation therapy designed to restore the function of worn-out T cells is ...

Phages, viruses that infect bacteria, could be genetically manipulated to destroy cancerous cells using the immunity we have ...

Researchers from National Taiwan University (NTU) and National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) have identified a promising ...

The maintenance of self-identity and defence from external threats are prerequisites for organismal survival. From the physical barriers formed by epithelial cells or mucus to the complex mechanisms ...

A preclinical study from researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, published today in Cell, details a ...

A study linking accelerated immune-cell aging to emotional, but not physical, depressive symptoms strengthens evidence that ...

While we tend to quickly forget having been ill or having received a vaccine, the immune system remembers remarkably well. It has memory B cells—"trained" immune cells that circulate throughout the ...

Full-body defense does not always look the way textbooks say it should. In planarian flatworms, a newly identified cell type ...

Disulfidptosis, a form of cell death driven by accumulation of abnormal disulfide bonds, was first used to describe death induced by glucose deprivation in SLC7A11-high cancer cells. A study now ...