During the recent Covid-19 pandemic, the rate of serious illness and death was jarringly high in older populations. Why? Weakening immune systems — as we age, we become more vulnerable to infections, ...

A groundbreaking study, led by Professor Kyemyung Park and his research team in the Graduate School of Health Science and Technology and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNIST has shed ...

Borrowing a cancer cell’s disguise, scientists shielded insulin-producing cells from attack by the immune system, a breakthrough that could pave the way for targeted type 1 diabetes treatments without ...

Immunotherapy drugs continue to gain momentum across a growing range of disease areas with blockbusters such as Merck’s ...

Being born with two X chromosomes brings a host of health benefits, and recognising this could lead to personalised medical ...

Two complementary studies led by researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS ...

Immune cells native to the intestines travel to the pancreas to stimulate glucagon production in pancreatic alpha cells, thereby contributing to the regulation of blood glucose levels, suggests a ...

Blood cancers such as leukemia are caused by genetic changes in the blood-forming stem cells of the bone marrow. Scientists ...