The majority of children do not need a tonsillectomy.” But when done for the right reasons, tonsillectomy offers a meaningful ...

An engineered protein turns off the kind of immune cells most likely to damage tissue as part of type-1 diabetes, hepatitis, ...

A new study by scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus reveals that joint tissue from patients with ...

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), a type of arthritis commonly occurring in children, is a chronic, inflammatory condition ...

Insects possess a remarkable ability to develop innate immune memory, and the mechanisms underlying this process are becoming a central topic in innate immunity research.

Scientists have identified a biological ‘switch' that prevents the immune system from attacking healthy cells. This discovery could revolutionize treatments for autoimmune diseases, which affect ...

A credit-card-sized chip may soon outsmart cancer.A team led by NYU Tandon School of Engineering’s Weiqiang Chen has developed a miniature device that could reshape how blood cancer treatments are ...

A recent study published in Genes & Diseases explores the clinical implications of loss-of-function mutations in IKBKG/NEMO, ...

The immune system has evolved to act as a first responder against infections, and scientists have revealed how it knows when to activate.

In the situation of cancer, the immune system is failing to control and destroy neoplastic cells. Cancer immunotherapy (also referred as immune-oncology) is the modulation of the immune system to ...

Mapping out the networks of cells in the joint reveals a pink barrier layer, navy immune cells flooding in through light blue ...