The idea sounds almost poetic. The body, designed to protect itself, turns its own defence system against cancer. For decades, this felt like a far-fetched goal. Today, it is part of real treatment ...

Vaccines are among the greatest achievements in medical science, saving millions of lives every year. They protect individuals and entire communities from infectious diseases such as measles, polio, ...

For clinicians, the ability to look routinely inside the body and see -- at the level of the cell -- how it confronts disease is a distant dream. But in a series of experiments with genetically ...

Our immune system is much older than we think. Long before dinosaurs existed, early life forms had developed a powerful defense system. Innate immunity has existed since the Cambrian period—that is, ...

When the immune system encounters a virus, it produces antibodies designed to recognize and eliminate the invader. But in ...

Researchers have trained an artificial intelligence system to forecast how strongly a person will respond to a vaccine before ...

Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that occurs when there is misfiring of the immune response to infection. In sepsis, ...

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 ...

Support your immune system The immune system is your body’s natural defense against infections, including new invaders like this coronavirus. It works 24/7 to protect you from viruses, bacteria, and ...

Crohn's disease, a condition characterized by widespread inflammation in the gut, may arise from a weakened immune response, ...