People with hard-to-treat asthma often have to use medicines such as systemic steroids that broadly suppress the immune ...

In order to reprogram readily available cells into specific immune cells that fight various diseases, one must know the "recipe" for the transformation. Researchers at Lund University have now created ...

In order to reprogram readily available cells into specific immune cells that fight various diseases, one must know the “recipe” for the transformation. Researchers at Lund University have now created ...

It was late 2024, and I was sitting in a room above Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital receiving a test called IMM-AGE ...

How do we recover from illness when our immune system works against us? Autoimmune conditions contribute to disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, ...

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 ...

"SICK! THE TWISTS AND TURNS BEHIND ANIMAL GERMS" by Heather L. Montgomery (Bloomsbury Children's Books, 160 pages, $20). Children's author Heather L. Montgomery was inspired to write the ...

The immune system is the frontline protection against infection, continually searching for and destroying unknown pathogens.

Kate Markey, MBBS, PhD, has discovered a link between the intestinal microbiome and developing chronic graft-versus-host ...

We sometimes hear about the benefits of “boosting” our immune system, but what we really want to do is support our immune system on an ongoing basis. People often think of the immune system as ...