Full-body defense does not always look the way textbooks say it should. In planarian flatworms, a newly identified cell type ...

There is a constant war going on in your body. Working against you are viruses and cancer cells growing uncontrollably, threatening your tissues and organs. Fighting on your side are immune cells such ...

By freezing your own healthy blood stem cells in your 20s, thawing them and undergoing a stem cell transplant in your 40s or ...

A new platform developed by researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center quickly finds and isolates rare, ...

(Juan Gartner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) The human immune system has evolved an incredible ability to fight off ...

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, a type of immunotherapy that leverages the immune system to combat diseases, is a powerful treatment option for certain cancers. The treatment relies on ...

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) impacts nearly two million Americans, and by the time most people learn they have it, most of the body's insulin-producing cells are destroyed. Now, pinpointing a hidden group of ...

T cells are specialized immune cells designed to identify and eliminate disease. In the context of chronic inflammatory ...

Widely recognized as the face of food poisoning, salmonella bacteria lurk in raw meat and poultry, on pets and in ...

Researchers found that mRNA cancer vaccines can recruit an unexpected immune cell to launch powerful tumor-fighting responses ...

An engineered stem cell therapy reversed new-onset Type 1 diabetes in mice by shifting the immune system away from attacking ...