Increasing activity in a deep-brain region can boost the immune system’s response to vaccines—and people can be trained to do ...

Researchers showed CD1c presents lipid antigens sideways, not upright. Imaging and mass spectrometry revealed flexible ...

The last thing you want to hear when you’re feeling down is something like “chin up” or “just think positive.” But there may ...

An initiative partly funded by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the UK has moved further towards its goal of producing a 'human cell atlas' (HCA) to map every cell type in the human body.

Pancreatic cancer uses a sugar-coated disguise to evade the immune system, helping explain why it’s so hard to treat.

A new study shows human immune systems differ across populations, raising new questions for medicine and global drug research ...

Learn how a naturally occurring cat coronavirus is helping reveal how viral infections can linger inside the immune system.

Getting a tattoo may leave a lasting mark not only on your skin, but also on your immune system. This is the conclusion of a ...

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinsky Institute has today decided to award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Mary Branco, Fred Ramsdell, and Simonakaguchi for their discoveries ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists – two of them American and one Japanese – for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of ...