Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, defending you from thousands of pathogens that cause disease while sparing your body's own healthy cells. This careful equilibrium is ...

We all get sick sometimes. Even something pretty minor, like a cold or flu, can be enough to disrupt your life for a few days. When you have a minor illness, it does more than just make you feel ...

The 2025 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine celebrates a discovery that answers one of medicine’s most profound questions: how does the immune system know when to attack, and when to stand down?

We sometimes hear about the benefits of “boosting” our immune system, but what we really want to do is support our immune system on an ongoing basis. People often think of the immune system as ...

Influenza continues to cause major illness each year in the United States, leading to more than 35,000 deaths annually.

When a child changes overnight, the first question is usually behavioral. Recent studies suggest that's the wrong question, ...

Prathamesh Dongre, a postdoctoral researcher at The Francis Crick Institute, studies how high-fat diets alter enteric nervous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Regulatory T cells (red) interact with other immune cells (blue) and modulate immune responses. National Institute of Allergy and ...