The innate immune system sees drugs as threats, but researchers are taking advantage of this response to make cancer therapies more effective.

Stowers Institute researchers have found that the very thing designed to prevent the body from illness may be a factor in aging and chronic disease.

Purdue University scientists are deciphering an intricate cellular signaling system critical to immune response to better understand how it could be used to address multiple diseases, including cancer ...

The role of the gut-brain axis in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has emerged over recent years as a possible target for therapeutics. But the mechanism linking the two remains to be fully elucidated. In ...

An international team led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden has identified the molecular tools needed to reprogram ordinary cells into specialized immune cells. The discovery, published in ...

Rochester, Minn. — The immune system is meant to protect the body from infection and disease. But with age, it can become less capable of doing so. However, Mayo Clinic researchers have found that ...

Researchers have discovered the “fountain of youth” for cells - but it comes with a big cost. Some people over 60 years old were found to have immune systems that appear to be much younger in wear-and ...

Borrowing a cancer cell’s disguise, scientists shielded insulin-producing cells from attack by the immune system, a breakthrough that could pave the way for targeted type 1 diabetes treatments without ...

Scientific breakthroughs in one disease don't always shed light on treating other diseases. But that's been the surprising journey of one Mayo Clinic research team. After identifying a sugar molecule ...

Our brains might prime our immune system merely by seeing someone who looks sick. A study published July 28 in Nature Neuroscience found that participants who saw sick-looking faces in virtual reality ...

A University of Florida research team led by Dr. Elias Sayour, center, developed an mRNA vaccine that boosted the tumor-fighting effects of immunotherapy. An experimental mRNA vaccine developed at the ...