A new study, recently published in the journal Nature Communications, is leading to a new understanding of how immune cells ...

Rochester, Minn. — The immune system is meant to protect the body from infection and disease. But with age, it can become less capable of doing so. However, Mayo Clinic researchers have found that ...

The circumstances surrounding a study on a deadly virus could hardly have been more dramatic. One of its first authors was forced to flee his homeland when it became a war zone. More than 2,000 ...

Why does the same virus barely faze one person while sending another to the hospital? New research shows the answer lies in a molecular record etched into our immune cells by both our genes and our ...

The last thing you want to hear when you’re feeling down is something like “chin up” or “just think positive.” But there may be some merit to that approach, at least if you can channel it ...

A new study by researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, working with colleagues at Columbia University in New York, documents how the immune system functions differently in patients with ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As the vivid green shades of summer quickly transition into the golden tones of autumn, the outdoor garden comes to a close with temperatures too low to sustain, and 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 ...