There's a new frontier in treating autoimmune diseases. Today's treatments tamp down the friendly fire but don't fix what's ...

Work on peacemakers in the immune system won the 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. The peacemakers are regulatory T cells, a type of immune cell that calms the immune system after it has ...

The immune system faces a delicate balancing act: it must be aggressive enough to fight infections and cancer, yet restrained ...

Why do immune cells that are supposed to eliminate viruses suddenly turn against our own body? There are instances where killer T cells—which are meant to precisely remove virus-infected ...

A promising breakthrough in autoimmune disease research may open the door to safer and more effective treatments. Scientists have engineered a special antibody that can selectively calm the immune ...

CU Anschutz researchers uncovered a link between a type of mucosal immune cell and gut inflammation, finding that the cells ...

Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. (Photo by Atila Altuntas/Anadolu via Getty Images) The 2025 Nobel Prize in ...

(CNN) — The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists – two of them American and one Japanese – for unraveling how the immune system protects us from ...

New Fred Hutch Cancer Center viral immunologist Dr. Paul Thomas is working to turn the "incredible potential" of the immune ...

Being born with two X chromosomes brings a host of health benefits, and recognising this could lead to personalised medical ...