Unlike accidental cell death, some cells can actively decide to die through a controlled process. This is called programmed ...

T Cells: Tireless Soldiers Feeling the Heat Our immune system has a particularly fearsome weapon in its fight against cancer: ...

A protein produced by gut immune cells orchestrates both immune protection against pathogens and immune tolerance of gut ...

The research focused on macrophages, immune cells responsible for removing damaged and dead cells from the body.

(Juan Gartner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) The human immune system has evolved an incredible ability to fight off ...

An engineered stem cell therapy reversed new-onset Type 1 diabetes in mice by shifting the immune system away from attacking ...

A landmark study due to start in the coming months aims to test a method for rejuvenating our immune system in older age. The ...

For the immune system to effectively combat pathogens, antibody responses must be precisely controlled. So-called follicular ...

As scientists gain a deeper understanding of how the body’s immune system remembers pathogens it must fight, the paradigm for ...

Innate lymphoid cells, which curiously behave like T cells even though they don’t recognize specific antigens, show promise as a potential cancer therapeutic. In the years that followed, other groups ...

Widely recognized as the face of food poisoning, salmonella bacteria lurk in raw meat and poultry, on pets, and in ...

A study linking accelerated immune-cell aging to emotional, but not physical, depressive symptoms strengthens evidence that ...