Unlike infectious agents, cancer cells originate from the patient themselves and can therefore evade immune surveillance. The ...

By electrically stimulating macrophages, scientists at Trinity College Dublin have found a way to calm inflammation and ...

As flu season approaches and public health officials roll out their annual push for vaccination, Allen Institute scientists ...

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — The most widely used COVID-19 vaccines may offer a surprise benefit for some cancer patients – revving up ...

A decade after a landmark study proved that feeding peanut products to young babies could prevent development of life-threatening allergies, new research finds the change has made a big difference in ...

Covid vaccines may come with a tantalizing benefit that has nothing to do with the virus they’re designed to protect against: ...

This particular study found that the inflammation that naturally happens with endurance exercise has an impact on natural killer cells, encouraging them to be more efficient over time, says Amesh A.

SEATTLE — A local Seattle woman is one of three scientists awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Mary Brunkow, PhD, alongside Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi, received the ...

The Japanese physician and immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi, the American immunologist Fred Ramsdell and the American molecular biologist Mary Brunkow have been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries about how the immune system knows to attack germs and not our own bodies. The work by Mary E. Brunkow, Fred ...