The key players of our immune system aren’t well understood. Here’s how vaccines give our immune players a home advantage to ...

Secondary infections caused by bacteria or viruses during hospital care remain a long-standing global challenge, despite ...

The immune system function declines with age, but a team of MIT researchers may have found a way to rejuvenate it. When older mice were injected with mRNA that coded for the creation of ...

People who commonly experience everyday discrimination are more likely to have higher levels of "exhausted" white blood cells, suggesting that the chronic stress of discrimination may hamper the ...

Your immune system is your body’s built-in defense network, working nonstop to protect you from bacteria, viruses, and other harmful invaders. Your immune system includes two main parts: the innate ...

Researchers found an antibody that seems to play a role in people with better lung cancer prognoses, but turning it into a treatment could be difficult. By Gina Kolata Is there a way to use the body’s ...

The same white blood cells that rush to fight infection seem to have a second job: preventing your body from burning too much fat. That’s the finding from a new study published in Nature, which ...

I am lying under a blanket, feeling rough, staring at a bowl of oranges. Every fibre of my being is urging me to devour the lot. I can hear my mum – and medical friends at university – insisting that ...

Kimchi may do far more than add flavor to meals—it could help fine-tune the human immune system. A clinical study using advanced single-cell genetic analysis found that regular kimchi consumption ...

Can the weakened immune systems of older individuals be rejuvenated? Researchers from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), the HI-STEM* institute, and the Broad Institute have demonstrated that ...

TUPELO — Buying a variety of vitamins and supplements to make your immune system stronger could be a waste of money. A far cheaper and healthier way to boost the immune system is through changes in ...

Lindsey DeSoto, RD, is a nutrition writer, medical reviewer, and registered dietitian who helps clients improve their diet for health-related reasons. Her writing covers a variety of topics, including ...