For many conditions including immune-related ones, genetics often explains only a small fraction of the differences between ...

Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, attacking harmful invaders while protecting your own tissues ...

Researchers are uncovering why the immune system falters in space, from microbiome shifts to stress, and how to fight back.

Human immunity is an incredibly complex system that has to be very carefully regulated by the body. We need our immune systems to be able to leap into action when our health is threatened by pathogens ...

In a recent review in the journal Food Science & Nutrition, a team of researchers summarized the current medical knowledge regarding the role certain common foods play in strengthening the immune ...

For the Nobel laureates, the journey began in the 1980s with Shakaguchi’s discovery, and was furthered in the 1990s-2000s by ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered that some natural killer cells, NK cells, temporarily reside ...

Researchers have discovered giant DNA structures in oral bacteria, and data hint they could influence the function of your ...

A new method to keep human lymph node tissue alive and functioning outside the body for several days could give researchers a much clearer view of how our immune system responds to infections, ...

Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi have been awarded for their work on the immune system. We break down what ...

As humanity prepares for longer missions beyond Earth, scientists are uncovering unsettling truths about how space reshapes ...

Peripheral immune tolerance is one way the body helps keep the immune system from getting out of whack and attacking your own ...