T cells, which target infection and disease, can become more effective after a meal. The finding might help improve ...

Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine have uncovered a previously unknown way the immune system fights cancer — and the ...

Activated immune cells secrete tiny capsules bearing DNA that can enter other immune and tumor cells to stimulate the body's defense systems, according to a study led by investigators at Weill Cornell ...

A collaboration between the University of Geneva and Lausanne University Hospital has shown in new detail how the body's defenses fight back against malignant cells. Those defenses involve T ...

At WIRED Health, immunologist Daniel Davis detailed the ways in which new technologies are enabling a better understanding of ...

People with hard-to-treat asthma often have to use medicines such as systemic steroids that broadly suppress the immune ...

Pancreatic cancer’s deadliest trait may be its ability to stay invisible — and researchers in Rochester say they are ...

A new study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai overturns a longstanding assumption about how mRNA ...

Cancer cells can disarm the immune system not just by hiding from it, but by actively reprogramming nearby immune cells into a suppressed state. This previously unrecognized molecular interaction, ...

Immunologist Dr. Jenna Macciochi explains that as we age, our immune system starts to decline. Here's how to spot an immune ...