(THE CONVERSATION) Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, defending you from thousands of pathogens that cause disease while sparing your body’s own healthy cells. This ...

Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi have been awarded for their work on the immune system. We break down what ...

Sharon Evans, a cancer immunologist at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center who studies the role of temperature in T cell responses, said that, to date, the influence of the external environment ...

Dealing with the itchy, scaly patches that come with psoriasis is difficult enough. But having psoriasis puts you at risk of developing psoriatic arthritis, an inflammatory condition that impacts the ...

The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded on Monday to three scientists for discovering how a particular kind of cell can stop the body's immune system from attacking itself.- The immune system is your ...