Cancer immunotherapy is built on a simple but powerful idea: the immune system can recognize and destroy cancer cells if it is properly activated. In many patients, however, this response is too weak ...

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, ...

As part of the body's first line of defense against foreign invaders, macrophages play an integral role in the innate immune ...

A surprising backup system in the immune response to mRNA vaccines may hold the key to more effective cancer treatments.

Researchers at Hannover Medical School (MHH) have developed a method for the efficient production of human immune cells, such ...

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

A blood draw takes about five minutes. Analyzing what it reveals about how quickly your immune cells are aging could, ...

An “immune system reset” cured autoimmune, or Type 1, diabetes in mice in a Stanford Medicine study. The approach may be useful for other autoimmune conditions as well as organ transplants.

People with type 1 diabetes must constantly rely on insulin injections or pumps, usually for the rest of their life after diagnosis. The autoimmune disease destroys the cells that produce the hormone, ...

A decade ago, a clinical trial in the U.K. notably showed that children who were exposed to peanuts in the early months of life had reduced risk of developing a peanut allergy compared with children ...