Experiments in humans and mice suggest that certain white blood cells, known as T-cells, may respond to infections more ...

During the recent Covid-19 pandemic, the rate of serious illness and death was jarringly high in older populations. Why? Weakening immune systems — as we age, we become more vulnerable to infections, ...

What keeps some immune systems youthful and effective in warding off age-related diseases? In a new paper published in Cellular & Molecular Immunology, USC Stem Cell scientist Rong Lu and her ...

Researchers have developed a new method to recreate a robust and functional human immune system in mice using mononuclear cells from the cord blood. This new kind of mice, that count with most of the ...

In Finland, researchers wanted to test a simple idea: what happens to kids' health if you swap out the pavement, gravel, and ...

Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) researchers have developed an engineered stem cell treatment capable of reversing ...

The immune systems of cancer patients are highly disrupted, with those who have a higher number of immune cells in their blood having a better survival rate, finds a new study that uses a pioneering ...

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 ...

UK MHRA grants marketing authorization to Sanofi’s rilzabrutinib to treat adults with immune thrombocytopenia when prior treatments have been insufficient: United Kingdom Monday ...

Immunity plays a central role in the fight against cancer. Many of the current immunotherapies aim at helping the patient's immune system to better recognize cancer cells—by using engineered ...