Aimee Pugh Bernard is affiliated with Immunize Colorado as a volunteer and unpaid board member. Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, defending you from thousands of ...

For decades, aging has looked like an unavoidable slide into frailty, driven in part by an immune system that slowly loses ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their work on how our immune system is prevented from attacking our organs.

Our immune system implements an array of strategies to combat threatening infections. White blood cells called cytotoxic T ...

Your immune system is your body’s built-in defense network, working nonstop to protect you from bacteria, viruses, and other harmful invaders. Your immune system includes two main parts: the innate ...

Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a rare blood disorder in which the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys platelets. Platelets are small blood cells that play a critical role in helping your ...

Invisible particles in the air are not just irritating our lungs, they are quietly rewiring the immune system that is ...

Recent studies have shown that even if you feel healthy and fit, your immune system could be aging quicker than you think, which could increase the risk of infections and immune-related disorders.

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

One of the biggest hurdles in developing an HIV vaccine is coaxing the body to produce the right kind of immune cells and ...

Researchers recently tried an experiment: Gather people who had the same kind of lung cancer and put them on the same type of treatments to fire up their immune systems. The only difference was that ...

The emerging subdiscipline of "astroimmunology" has been formalized, focusing on understanding how spaceflight stressors significantly compromise the human immune system. A new guide, published in ...