A Fred Hutch Cancer Center study shows maternal antibodies in breastmilk help newborn mice develop immune tolerance, offering ...

The immune system is the body’s tool for preventing or limiting infection. Its complex network of cells, organs, proteins, and tissues enables the immune system to defend the body from pathogens. A ...

Immunotherapy is changing how we approach cancer—by using the body’s own defences to attack tumours. It avoids the widespread ...

Disease can arise both when immune cells are too active and when they're not active enough. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For ...

As it does with other pathogens, your immune system sees drugs as foreign invaders to be expelled from your body. But ...

The SCG2 hormone allows tumors to suppress immune defenses, opening up a new therapeutic avenue against cancer.

In the march of metastasis, a molecular trail of crumbs guides some cancer cells from the primary tumor to establish new ...

The human immune system is like an army of specialized soldiers (immune cells) each with a unique role to play in fighting disease. In a new study published in Nature, led by scientists at the Allen ...

The human immune system, a complex defense mechanism, includes the skin as its first line of defense and possesses a memory ...

The immune system can be "reprogrammed" to repair the body faster using electrical stimulation to jump-start healing, says a ...