Your immune system includes your body's cells, tissues, and organs, which work together to fight off infections and diseases. But how much do you know about it? When you understand everything that ...

The answer lies in how infected individuals invest into controlling pathogen proliferation and mitigating damage, two strategies respectively called resistance and disease tolerance. Pathogen ...

A team from Osaka University has developed scSPOT, a new technique that reveals how immune cells called Tregs simultaneously ...

In other words, rather than merely responding to IL-4 produced during the infection, they also work to prevent an overreaction of the immune system. Understanding this mechanism more precisely ...

HIV is spread by bodily fluids such as blood, breast milk or semen. It gradually weakens the body’s immune system and makes ...

Your immune system affects more than just infections. Discover how it shapes energy, aging, and overall health—and how to strengthen it.

A revolutionary approach to immune therapy has emerged: engineered immune cells that protect healthy tissue without ...

Scientists have uncovered a mechanism for reinvigorating the immune system to stop it from flagging when it’s fighting long-term conditions like chronic infections and cancer. The discovery ...

Prolonged illnesses like cancer and chronic infections often leave the immune system in a state of exhaustion, where its frontline defenders – T cells – lose their ability to function effectively.

After being struck down by winter illness, the BBC's James Gallagher goes in search of ways to boost his immune system.

Prolonged illnesses like cancer and chronic infections often leave the immune system in a state of exhaustion, where its frontline defenders—T cells—lose their ability to function effectively.

"We specifically looked at how the immune system behaves in cystic fibrosis before the cycle of infection and inflammation begins," said Prof. Nikolai Klymiuk from TUM. He is part of the ...