In a paradigm breaking study, Dr. Pavan Reddy, director of the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of ...

Imagine a game of chess where your opponent's king is in check. It cannot move, but the game is not over—the piece remains on ...

T cells are supposed to be relentless. These white blood cells patrol the body, identify threats, and destroy them.

With promise to slow aging and cure some types of cancer, a new gene therapy presents cost and access hurdles for CT patients ...

Researchers have found that transplanting specific gut viruses into obese mice can sharply improve how those animals regulate ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco have now developed a way to reprogram these cancer-fighting cells directly inside the body. This new method could remove the need for external manufacturing, ...

This article explores how advanced immune imaging technologies enable real-time visualization of immune responses, improving ...

Researchers explore the human immune system by looking at the active components, namely the various genes and cells involved. But there is a broad range of these, and observations necessarily produce ...

The human body operates like a finely tuned orchestra, with each system playing its part in perfect harmony. However, sometimes this delicate balance breaks down in ways that can leave people ...

Cigarette smoking is prevalent worldwide and causes numerous diseases, yet our understanding of how cigarette smoke (CS) causes serious respiratory illnesses is incomplete, and has held back the ...

Researchers have engineered Arabidopsis plants that emit visible light when their immune defenses switch on, creating a ...

Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new type of lipid nanoparticle (LNP) that could one day serve as ...