In the race to develop a safe, effective treatment for COVID-19, biotech companies like Regeneron and Vir Biotechnology, led by Cornell alumni, have turned to antibodies — which are naturally created ...

The human immune system, a complex defense mechanism, includes the skin as its first line of defense and possesses a memory ...

Analysis: the second most complex biological system in the body, your immune system is ready to go into battle for you every day, but it can malfunction We all have the ability develop immunity to ...

The immune system can be "reprogrammed" to repair the body faster using electrical stimulation to jump-start healing, says a ...

Analysis: Research shows our body clock controls the inflammatory process so our cells are active and then inactive at different times One of the main jobs of our immune cells is to sense when an ...

Researchers uncover how loss of a gene called MAP4K1 amplifies T cell responses, offering insights into immune disorders and potential therapies. A collaborative study between the Institute for ...

A new method to keep human lymph node tissue alive and functioning outside the body for several days could give researchers a ...

The immune system can be “reprogrammed” to heal the body faster using electrical stimulation, according to new research. Irish scientists discovered that electrically stimulating “macrophages” – one ...

Scientists with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have created an engineered model of the supportive tissue found within a lymph node to study human health. Working with scientists at ...

A type of mouse widely used to assess how the human immune system responds to transplanted stem cells does not reflect what is likely to occur in patients, according to a study by researchers at the ...

There is an old saying, “you are what you eat”. Now, more scientific evidence is emerging to show that our gastrointestinal system interacts with our nervous system. It seems our guts do indeed talk ...

Scientists connect a genetically modified pig lung to a brain-dead human; it functioned for nine days before being rejected.