Understanding what autoimmune diseases are, what triggers them and how they’re treated can be a powerful first step toward ...

The unleashed immune system can destroy cancer very effectively, but it also can attack healthy organs, with many people ...

Jan 5 () - Zenas BioPharma said on Monday its experimental drug cut the risk of disease flare-ups in a ​late-stage study of ...

Under normal conditions, cytokines aid in pathogen recognition and elimination while contributing to immune system ...

Organ transplants save lives, but unfortunately rejection is a key hurdle. Now scientists have demonstrated a potential new way to prime a recipient’s immune system to accept a transplanted organ, by ...

As the immune system weakens with age, scientists have found a way to restore some of its lost strength. By delivering mRNA ...

One shot in the arm, and the whole body is protected. But how? For one thing, the immune system produces antibodies and cells that patrol the entire organism by traveling through the bloodstream. For ...

During fasting or exercise, immune cells (red) migrate to the pancreas and stimulate glucagon-producing cells (orange) to regulate blood sugar, with cell nuclei shown in blue. “For decades, immunology ...

Researchers at MIT have unveiled a way to coax an aging immune system into acting young again, using the same kind of mRNA ...

Modifying the organ instead of the recipient isn’t a new idea, but it is an important one, said Jeffrey Platt, a transplantation biologist at the University of Michigan Medical School who was not ...