Skip breakfast, and within a few hours your body may be quietly pulling front-line immune cells off patrol and parking them ...

Why do immune cells that are supposed to eliminate viruses suddenly turn against our own body? There are instances where killer T cells—which are meant to precisely remove virus-infected ...

For centuries, the nature of a fever — and whether it's good or bad — has been hotly contested. In ancient Greece, the physician Hippocrates thought that fever had useful qualities, and could cook an ...

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Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UK) have contributed to discovering a "control switch" inside our immune cells ...

For the past 15 years or so, a class of drugs called immune checkpoint inhibitors have been used to treat melanoma – the most dangerous kind of skin cancer. For many patients, they produce remarkable ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries about how the immune system knows to attack germs and not our own bodies. The work by Mary E. Brunkow, Fred ...

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A massive single-cell study has revealed hidden genetic differences in male and female immune systems that may shape disease ...