Scientists in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and MIT have created a new family of tools that, for the ...

Cancer immunotherapies, including cancer vaccines, harness and amplify the immune system’s natural ability to detect and attack cancer cells. In this illustration, immune T cells (pink) attach to a ...

Disease can arise both when immune cells are too active and when they're not active enough. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For ...

Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a rare blood disorder in which the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys platelets. Platelets are small blood cells that play a critical role in helping your ...

Researchers from the Salk Institute have created a catalog demonstrating how hereditary factors and life experiences affect ...

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. Brunkow, 64, is a senior program manager ...

Find out how different vaccines for the coronavirus cause your body to create antibodies that fight the virus.

Gather people who had the same kind of lung cancer and put them on the same type of treatments to fire up their immune ...

Researchers from Mount Sinai have uncovered a possible explanation for why a flu infection can lead to heart disease. They’ve shown from work with mouse models and human data how the immune system ...