A new review by Dr. Ruyuan Wang and an international team of researchers explores the complex interactions between the innate and adaptive immune systems, shedding light on regulatory mechanisms in ...

The immune-boosting power of a fever is surprisingly ancient. Cold-blooded creatures like fish typically move to warmer environments to help fight infections. In one fish species, Nile tilapia, that ...

Cancer immunotherapies, including cancer vaccines, harness and amplify the immune system’s natural ability to detect and attack cancer cells. In this illustration, immune T cells (pink) attach to a ...

Historically, inflammation against self was considered autoimmune, a concept that stems back to the seminal observations by Ehrlich, who described serum factors now known to be autoantibodies produced ...

A study conducted in mice by researchers in the lab of Irvine Weissman, MD, at Stanford University School of Medicine, and at the National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories, has ...

“We know for multiple reasons why smoking is bad in terms of its cancer risk, but here we're showing additional information that it's also probably negatively impacting your immune response. And that ...