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

1. As environments become more complex and interconnected, modularity becomes essential. Living systems reduce risk by ...

Our immune system implements an array of strategies to combat threatening infections. White blood cells called cytotoxic T ...

After nearly 40 years of research on how Listeria bacteria manipulate our cells and battle our immune system to cause ...

Scientists have revealed a crucial mechanism used by the immune system to shield the gut during an infection. This work, which used a mouse model of intestinal worm infections, showed that the immune ...

For years, scientists have viewed cancer as a localized glitch in which cells refuse to stop dividing. Scientists have long ...

Our immune response is not fixed. It is a living, adaptive network of cells and signals that evolves over our lifespan, bringing refinement and fragility. Early life is marked by immune learning and ...

Researchers from the HUN-REN Szeged Biological Research Centre and HCEMM have just published a new study suggesting that it's not simply the number of tumor mutations that matters for immunotherapy, ...

The immune system is crucial to our health. It must sense pathogens and respond to these threats effectively. But the immune system also has to be carefully controlled. If it starts to attack healthy ...

New research uncovers how the brain, immune system, and nervous system contribute to heart attack damage, revealing three nodes that could be targeted with new therapeutics.

Research in psychoneuroimmunology suggests strong relationships may reduce stress and inflammation, indirectly supporting ...