Your immune system is a network of cells, tissues, and organs that fight off infection. Your immune system can be affected by ...

Herd immunity means that more people are immune to a contagious disease than the amount that can be infected. Here's how it ...

CHENNAI: The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell from the US, ...

The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded on Monday to three scientists for discovering how a particular kind of cell can stop ...

A small but key UK study has found that "cellular immunity" to the pandemic SARS-CoV-2 virus is present after six months in people who had mild or asymptomatic COVID-19 - suggesting they might have ...

It is generally agreed that a number of types of nutritional deficiencies, including vitamin D-deficient rickets, can cause a temporary state of immune deficiency. As a result, children with rickets ...

Regulatory T-cells, or Tregs, called the body's "security guards" by the Nobel committee, help stop the immune system from attacking healthy cells.

The aim of immunotherapy strategies is to leverage cells in the patient's own immune system to destroy tumor cells. Using a ...

Growing evidence that COVID-19 antibody levels can wane swiftly after someone is infected is not necessarily bad news for immunity, experts said on Thursday, and does not mean protection offered by ...