The immune system – made up of organs, tissues, cells and proteins – is your body’s personal defense system against bacteria ...

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In the midst of a flu-induced fever, it’s easy to ask why your own body would subject you to the chills, sweats, and aches ...

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As the dengue virus continues to be a significant global health concern, an international research team led by Duke-NUS ...

As the world continues to face the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, maintaining good immune health has become more important than ever.

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Cancer has been described as “a wound that does not heal,” implying that the immune system is unable to wipe out invading ... that cause the harmful transformation of immune cells from good to bad.

Researchers investigated differences in T-cell responses between male and female patients with lung cancer that may help direct future treatments. T-cell responses are part of the adaptive immune ...

Fever temperatures rev up immune cell metabolism, proliferation and activity, but they also -- in a particular subset of T cells -- cause mitochondrial stress, DNA damage and cell death, researchers ...