Once thought to be a flaw in the system, new research suggests that CD4 T cells may actually hold the key to maintaining a ...

When the immune system overreacts and starts attacking the body, the only option may be to shut the entire system down and risk developing infections or cancer. Immune cells that are designed to ...

As the immune system ages, it reacts more slowly to pathogens, vaccines become less effective, and the risk of cancer ...

New research comparing four different flu vaccines found that the ability of the vaccines to activate cells of the immune system that help to protect against infection varied greatly depending on the ...

Hypertension is one of the most prevalent non-transmittable diseases in the world, with 29% of the world's population expected to suffer from the condition by 2025. Despite substantial advances in ...

Stem-cell researcher Carolina Florian didn’t trust what she was seeing. Her elderly laboratory mice were starting to look younger. They were more sprightly and their coats were sleeker. Yet all she ...

Type 1 diabetes, in which the immune system destroys the insulin -producing cells in the pancreas, often develops more ...

Scientists have discovered why type 1 diabetes is more severe and aggressive when it develops in young children. Type 1 is ...

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, ...