How does the immune system work? The immune system defends our bodies by detecting, attacking, and removing viruses, bacteria and other foreign organisms. White blood immune cells fight viral ...

The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to three scientists for discovering how a particular kind of cell can stop the body's ...

As it does with other pathogens, your immune system sees drugs as foreign invaders to be expelled from your body. But ...

The body’s pathogen fighters can act as surveillance forces that ferry information from the gut and fat deposits to the brain. Similar immune cells are known to populate the membranes covering the ...

Immune cells known as neutrophils act as first responders to infection. Research on zebrafish shows light regulates their activity and boosts their ability to kill bacteria. Ever found yourself out of ...

LA JOLLA (July 29, 2025)—Of the 3.6 million babies born in the United States each year, around 80 percent begin breastfeeding in their first month of life. Breastfeeding has known benefits for both ...

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 ...