Bacteria in the human gut can directly deliver proteins into human cells, actively shaping immune responses. A consortium led ...

The immune system must maintain a delicate balance to defend against harmful threats while avoiding excessive inflammation.

Pancreatic cancer may evade the immune system not by accident but by actively switching off internal danger signals through ...

Cancer immunotherapy has transformed modern oncology by harnessing body's own immune system to combat malignant disease.

As we age, the immune system gradually declines in function, leaving the body more vulnerable to disease. Scientists have discovered a new way to rejuvenate a key component of immune function, ...

People who commonly experience everyday discrimination are more likely to have higher levels of "exhausted" white blood cells ...

Using single-cell epigenomic profiling of immune cells from 110 individuals, researchers show that genetic variation and ...

Scientists have revealed a crucial mechanism used by the immune system to shield the gut during an infection. This work, which used a mouse model of intestinal worm infections, showed that the immune ...

Cancer evolves through layers of change: mutations in DNA, shifts in gene regulation, altered cell behaviour, and dynamic ...

Scientists have found that blocking microglia (specialist immune cells in the brain) prevents infant forgetting ("infantile ...

A 2024 U.S. national survey reported that 11.8% of males and 7.6% of females ages 12 and older met the criteria for Alcohol ...

For a long time, neuroscientists treated this forgetting as a cognitive glitch or a simple lack of brainware maturity. But a ...