Immune cells called double negative T cells are abundant in the intestine but have been poorly understood till date. In a ...

Immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi, a co-winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, said he hopes research in ...

A protein notorious for its role in Alzheimer’s disease may hold the key to supercharging the aging immune system, according ...

Ohio State researchers have discovered that exhausted T cells collapse under the weight of misfolded proteins, activating a ...

Researchers led by Yasuhiro Murakawa at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) and Kyoto University in Japan and IFOM ETS in Italy have discovered several rare types of helper T cells ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of different microbes trying to invade our ...

Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, defending you from thousands of pathogens that cause disease while sparing your body's own healthy cells. This careful equilibrium is ...

The body has an intricate system to defend against infections where each type of immune cell plays a distinct role. Now, a study led by researchers from the Penn State College of Medicine has ...

MIT and Harvard scientists have created engineered CAR-NK cells that can hide from the immune system and more effectively ...