Cancer fighting T-cells, the immune system's primary enforcers, are scarce in the rare kidney cancer called chromophobe renal cell carcinoma (ChRCC) and those that are present are indifferent to the ...

Trained immunity in alveolar macrophages can lead to damaging lung inflammation, confirming the importance of context in this phenomenon.

At first glance, some people seem to have recovered from COVID-19. They no longer test positive and can return to work or ...

The majority of children do not need a tonsillectomy.” But when done for the right reasons, tonsillectomy offers a meaningful ...

An engineered protein turns off the kind of immune cells most likely to damage tissue as part of Type-1 diabetes, hepatitis, ...

Scientists have identified a biological ‘switch' that prevents the immune system from attacking healthy cells. This discovery could revolutionize treatments for autoimmune diseases, which affect ...

For the millions of Americans battling autoimmune disorders, new hope may be on the horizon in the form of reverse or inverse ...

Despite a significant increase in injections, today's vaccines expose children to a fraction of the immune-stimulating ...

A team of scientists has uncovered how an ancient immune system, the complement system, decides when to launch an attack—revealing a hidden mathematical tipping point based on the spatial density of ...

Food fuels your immune system by helping it build new immune cells, protective antibodies, proteins, and enzymes that, together, keep illness-causing invaders out. In fact, research suggests that ...