Older Adults Respond Well to Immunotherapy Despite Age-Related Immune System Differences Apr. 21, 2025 — Older adults with cancer respond just as well as younger patients to immune checkpoint ...

The immune system plays a key role in protecting our bodies from infections and diseases. When it is weakened, the body’s ability to fight pathogens decreases, making us more susceptible to a range of ...

In a study on mice, researchers discovered that the brain—not just the absence of food—plays a central role in how the body’s immune system responds when we don’t eat.

Scientists have long known that this isn’t just about feeling weak—it also involves how the brain is affected by signals from the immune system. A new set of studies from researchers at MIT ...

It is not merely about getting sick again. It is about becoming vulnerable to a whole list of diseases, some of them serious, or even deadly. The human immune system is like an army that defends the ...

A new study looking at deadly animal African trypanosomiasis has revealed how the parasite Trypanosoma congolense evades the immune system and drives severe disease in livestock. Researchers from ...

Instead, he called for a fundamental rethink: making systems "cyber immune" by design. "We need to redesign the systems. We need to make them not just secure, we need to make them immune," he ...

Penn State. (2025, April 21). Immune system proteins involved in severe parasitic disease identified. ScienceDaily. Retrieved April 23, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 04 ...

The pathogen that causes the disease, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is deadly in part because of its complex outer envelope, which helps it evade immune responses of infected hosts. In an ACS Infectious ...

They also activate other components of the immune system, which then go to work to clear an infection. A new study from Scripps Research explores the factors that influence how effectively ...