Gather people who had the same kind of lung cancer and put them on the same type of treatments to fire up their immune systems. The only difference was that half the group got their medications ...

An infection with Epstein-Barr virus is a nonevent for most people. But for a subset, the virus can contribute to chronic ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco have uncovered a new clue to how Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) could contribute to multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic autoimmune disease that affects nearly one million ...

One of the biggest hurdles in developing an HIV vaccine is coaxing the body to produce the right kind of immune cells and ...

You hear a lot about inflammation these days and how it’s bad for your health, but isn’t it also part of how your immune system protects you and keeps you healthy? At this point, I’m not sure I ...

Our immune system implements an array of strategies to combat threatening infections. White blood cells called cytotoxic T ...

Oral vaccines promise painless, needle-free protection—but the human gut evolved to destroy exactly what vaccines are made of ...

As bird flu continues to circulate in animals and spill over into humans, researchers are racing to stop it before it adapts ...

Cancer cells carry thousands of mutations, but not all mutations are created equal. Some make tumors highly visible to the ...

A new generation of engineered immune cell destroys cancer cells in mice 1 as effectively as conventional CAR-T-cell ...

A detailed analysis of immune cells in Long COVID patients has revealed a previously unknown molecular signature linked to ...