A new study describes an alternative way of using the body’s own immune cells to treat cancer.

Scientists have uncovered how a vitamin A metabolite can suppress anti-cancer immunity. Scientists at the Princeton University Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have uncovered new ...

Researchers have developed a new class of antibodies that amplify the immune system’s ability to fight cancer. By clustering ...

Cancer immunotherapies, including cancer vaccines, harness and amplify the immune system’s natural ability to detect and attack cancer cells. In this illustration, immune T cells (pink) attach to a ...

How does the same infection, say the flu or a cold, give some people mild symptoms and leave others suffering? Why do people develop autoimmune diseases? And will we ever be able to predict when—and ...

Gut health, antibiotic resistance, probiotics and the effects of bacteria on the immune system are specialties for Amir Mani, a new faculty member in the Department of Animal Science for the Arkansas ...

Across the world, only a few dozen people appear to carry a genetic glitch that lets them brush off viruses that flatten ...

Researchers at WashU Medicine and their collaborators have created an immune cell atlas of multiple myeloma, a cancer of the ...

I am lying under a blanket, feeling rough, staring at a bowl of oranges. Every fibre of my being is urging me to devour the lot. I can hear my mum – and medical friends at university – insisting that ...