How an overactive immune system can drive cancer

The immune system is designed to protect us against viruses and bacteria. In autoimmune diseases, however, the immune system ...

Keeping up with the phages: How V. cholerae neighbors swap defenses against viruses

Like most bacteria, Vibrio cholerae lives under constant attack from viruses. To survive, bacteria equip themselves with ...
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Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for discovering how immune system is kept in check

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinsky Institute has today decided to award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Mary Branco, Fred Ramsdell, and Simonakaguchi for their discoveries ...
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How the Immune System Triggers a Loss of Appetite

Anyone who has weathered a bad stomach bug knows the feeling: a loss of appetite that sets in and lingers, even after the initial illness. The same thing happens for millions of people worldwide with ...

Gut-to-brain pathway explains how the immune system triggers loss of appetite during parasitic infection

Anyone who has weathered a bad stomach bug knows the feeling: a loss of appetite that sets in and lingers, even after the ...

Researchers map prostate immune niches, showing T cells persist months in mice

More than 35,000 men in the United States die from prostate cancer each year. Now, a new study reveals the immune cell ...
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Zeaxanthin may boost anti-tumor immune response in cancer care

Checkpoint inhibitors have transformed cancer treatment over the past decade, helping hundreds of thousands of patients by ...
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Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for discovering how immune system is kept in check

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists – two of them American and one Japanese – for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of ...