Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have developed a simplified version of biodegradable nanoparticles that can "educate" the immune system to find and destroy disease-causing cells throughout ...

Millions of people worldwide carry viral infections they acquired at birth, often for life. For a long time it was assumed ...

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

Vitamins and supplements like zinc and cod liver oil are often touted for their ability to boost your immune system, but Jeffrey Bland, the "father of functional medicine," says that's not actually ...

An innovative gene-editing strategy could establish a new way for the body to manufacture therapeutic proteins—including ...

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 ...