Your immune system is your body’s built-in defense network, working nonstop to protect you from bacteria, viruses, and other ...

People who commonly experience everyday discrimination are more likely to have higher levels of "exhausted" white blood cells ...

Recent immunology research has unveiled the complex relationship between vitamin D and immune system function. This vital nutrient is involved in the development and function of the immune system, ...

A study reveals that CD44 coordinates immune cell movement through supportive tissue cells and that cytomegalovirus disrupts ...

Pancreatic cancer may evade the immune system not by accident but by actively switching off internal danger signals through ...

In a major scientific breakthrough, researchers from Monash University and the Lions Eye Institute have discovered a tissue ...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients ...

One of the main changes is a loss of the innate immune system's naive T cells, the first line of defense against pathogens, and an increase in the adaptive immune system's memory T cells. This ...

The immune system functions best when it’s supported by health-promoting daily routines. Getting adequate sleep, limiting alcohol intake and eating the rainbow are immune-supportive lifestyle habits.

A vitamin A byproduct has been found to quietly disarm the immune system, allowing tumors to evade attack and weakening ...