Tag: immune system

What if one of the most effective tools we have against dementia has been sitting quietly in our medical arsenal ...

The proteasome was thought to be just a protein-recycler. Turns out, it can also kill bacteria

Measles doesn’t just cause a rash—it erases immune memory, leaving survivors vulnerable for years.

A new study suggests that children with peanut allergies may be able to safely build tolerance through a simple, cost-effective ...

Social isolation and loneliness are more than personal struggles—they're global public health crises.

Patients with type 1 diabetes currently need daily injections of insulin to manage the disease.

This could pave the way towards a cure.

Self-care is more important than ever during the COVID-19 outbreak.

With the global trend of vaccine hesitancy, skeptical parents are refusing to get their children vaccinated due to false concerns ...

Tiny particles penetrate into the lungs and the bloodstream

Too clean is not necessarily a good thing.

A rare genetic disorder that deactivates the immune system of baby boys may have been cured.

So pretty tho!

Exercising is almost never bad for you.

Their nature makes them ideal against pathogens that hide from immune cells, such as HIV.

The body's defense systems are impressive.

Bunch up!

Scientists discovered how cancerous cells hide from immune system -- and how to make them targets again.

The trial will alter T cells in an attempt to treat lung cancer patients.

If you've always wanted a tattoo but never quite got around to it, now you have the perfect excuse: a ...

The thymus is one of those under appreciated organs you just don’t hear much about. Sitting in your chest, just ...

A breakthrough research found that male and female mice use different cells to signal pain. This could explain why both ...

Alec Falkenham, a 27-year-old PhD student at Dalhousie University in Halifax, has invented a special cream that will wipe out ...

Australian scientists have cured nut allergy in 80% of the children taking part in a probiotic clinical trial. These children's ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (MPI-IE)  re-activated the expression of an ancient gene in mice. To ...

It's not the cancer tumor itself that kills people, but rather the spread of cancer cells is what ultimately may ...

Think about mucus - what comes to mind? It's slimy, it's gross, no one really likes it, right? Well, as ...

The life expectancy gap between men and women is a rather attested fact, and while in the past a laborious, ...

Great tits are widespread species throughout Europe, the Middle East, Central and Northern Asia, and parts of North Africa in ...

A virus that most of us carry, yet which is remarkably obscure both to the immune system and the general ...

Babies need to wait until they're at least two months old for vaccines to work, which leaves  a lot of ...

Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine came across a particular strain of bacteriophage - a virus that infects and replicates within ...

By creating this microbiome catalog, researchers hope to figure out the complex interactions between the countless microbes in our bodies ...

In what can only be hailed as a breakthrough in the "smart drugs" field, scientists at Harvard University have successfully ...