Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine have uncovered a previously unknown way the immune system fights cancer — and the ...

Cancer immunotherapy is built on a simple but powerful idea: the immune system can recognize and destroy cancer cells if it ...

As part of the body's first line of defense against foreign invaders, macrophages play an integral role in the innate immune ...

A surprising backup system in the immune response to mRNA vaccines may hold the key to more effective cancer treatments.

PGV001 vaccine showed strong immune response and was well tolerated in a phase 1 trial with 13 patients across multiple cancer types. At five-year follow-up, six patients were alive, with three ...

Type 2 diabetes can turn immune cells that help with tissue repair and anti-inflammatory responses into triggers of chronic ...

Diabetes is often described as a metabolic disease. Yet, over the past decade, it has become clear that the immune system is deeply involved at every stage ...

The gastrointestinal tract is continuously exposed to foreign antigens in food and commensal microbes that have the potential to induce adaptive immune responses for food allergies. Upon genetic ...

What actually changes in the body during a single session? And how quickly do those changes happen? A new study set out to answer that by tracking immune responses before, during, and after a ...