Breakthrough raises new possibilities for regenerative medicine, which uses patient’s own cells to repair damaged tissues

The 2025 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Shimon Sakaguchi, an immunologist at Osaka University; Fred Ramsdell, an immunologist...

Your immune system is your body’s army. It fights off viruses, bacteria, and infections every day. Its elite soldiers are called T cells. Some T...

Scientists from the University of Hong Kong have discovered that some types of fat in our diet can help the immune system fight cancer more...

Scientists from the University of Hong Kong have discovered that some types of fat in our diet can help the immune system fight cancer more...

One of the newest weapons that scientists have developed against cancer is a type of engineered immune cell known as CAR-NK (natural killer) cells....

Critical care nurse Janet Kerrigan was stunned to discover in 2011 that she had multiple myeloma, an incurable blood cancer, and she only had a year...

Exercise is well known for strengthening muscles, lungs, and the heart, but new research shows it also “trains” the immune system. An...

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the cells that produce insulin-a critical hormone that...

In experiments with mouse models of breast, pancreatic, and muscle cancers, researchers at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital report new evidence...