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, ...

Scientists have developed a technique that aligns stem cells into a single sheet, resulting in a marked increase in the secretion of signaling proteins which help repair tissue and regulate the immune ...

For the first time, scientists have unraveled just how high levels of fructose affect the body, flipping a genetic switch as it's broken down – one that primes your immune system to overreact to ...

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

Engineered chip mimics bone marrow and immune system, offering a faster, tailored path for cancer immunotherapy.

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

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 ...

The latest research published in Genes & Diseases unveils groundbreaking insights into the role of the aging process and the ...

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

Antigen-presenting cells (APCs) are a heterogeneous group of immune cells that mediate the cellular immune response by processing and presenting antigens for recognition by certain lymphocytes ...

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 ...