Why do some vaccines protect for a lifetime, while threats like tumors and viruses present such an ongoing challenge? The ...

Humans cannot fully heal spinal cord injuries. When the spinal cord is damaged, the body's immune system often spirals into ...

One immune cell may help slow aging by restoring the body's natural cellular cleanup process, according to a new study.

Unlike accidental cell death, some cells can actively decide to die through a controlled process. This is called programmed cell death and can occur in different forms, including apoptosis and ...

Stanford researchers found that reviving immune cells that clear the body's cellular waste kept aging mice "lean and buff," ...

A new study has found that creatine can provide a crucial energy boost to key immune cells, allowing them to effectively ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified the immune cell that acts as the architect and coordinator of powerful immune hubs that form inside tumors and plays a key ...

Innate lymphoid cells, which curiously behave like T cells even though they don’t recognize specific antigens, show promise as a potential cancer therapeutic. In the years that followed, other groups ...

Researchers found that mRNA cancer vaccines can recruit an unexpected immune cell to launch powerful tumor-fighting responses ...

Sea anemones distinguish helpful bacteria from harmful invaders without antibodies. Specialized cell structures engulf and ...

A breakthrough AI system is revolutionizing cancer immunotherapy by enabling scientists to design protein-based keys that train a patient s immune cells to attack cancer with extreme precision. This ...