For decades, scientists have searched for a way to outsmart Lyme disease, a stealthy infection that affects nearly half a ...

The thymus is a crucial training ground for T-cells, the body's "white knights," where they learn to battle the various diseases they may encounter. Thymic function shrinks to nearly nothing as we age ...

Our body's own defense system not only clears away bacteria and viruses, it can also fight cancer. However, not all tumor ...

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has confirmed that MM exhibits high intra-tumor heterogeneity, comprising a mixture of ...

In the microscopic battlefield of plant-microbe interactions, plants are constantly fighting off invading bacteria. New research reveals just how clever these bacterial invaders can be.

help the immune system fight cancer. However, these treatments can sometimes harm healthy tissues and cause severe side effects. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are tiny, bubble-like structures ...

Infants given antibiotics within the first days of life show measurable suppression of immune system development. A new study found that antibiotic exposure during the neonatal window disrupts gut ...

and maybe later were hijacked by the immune system also to act as immune modulators,” Choi says. In the other Cell paper, the researchers explored another brain location where they found IL-17 ...

These treatments would work indirectly by altering immune chemicals to calm the immune system rather than by acting directly on the brain like traditional psychiatric drugs do. Those drugs must ...

A new study finds that proteasomes—structures that reside in all cells ... antibiotics and other medicinal therapies. The human immune system is a remarkable evolutionary tool that is often ...

The immune system is designed to defend the body against harmful invaders like bacteria, viruses, and toxins. However, in autoimmune diseases, this defense mechanism malfunctions and mistakenly ...