Our immune system is so powerful that it can sometimes attack parts of our body itself, leading to autoimmune disorders. Today, it is well known that the body has a regulatory mechanism, called ...

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 ...

Blyth is the founder and former CEO of LIfT BioSciences, a company developing neutrophil-based immunotherapies designed to ...

Your immune system is like an incredibly sophisticated security team, constantly patrolling your body for threats and neutralizing them before they can cause harm. When it’s working properly, this ...

Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, defending you from thousands of pathogens that cause disease while sparing your body's own healthy cells. This careful equilibrium is ...

Researchers are developing a two-part therapy for type 1 diabetes: lab-made insulin-producing cells paired with ...

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STOCKHOLM -- Mary E. Brunkow, PhD, Fred Ramsdell, PhD, and Shimon Sakaguchi, MD, PhD, won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. Brunkow, ...

Researchers at MIT have unveiled a way to temporarily reboot aging immune systems, using a targeted mRNA therapy that turns the liver into a short‑lived factory for powerful T‑cell survival signals.