Memory T cells are a special type of white blood cell that "remember" past infections and vaccines, helping our bodies to ...

Multicellular organisms are a mosaic of different cells, tissues, and systems, each with their own specific function and interactions with other cells within the organism and/or the larger environment ...

Researchers led by a team from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel have just discovered a way to destroy harmful ...

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) impacts nearly two million Americans, and by the time most people learn they have it, most of the ...

What keeps some immune systems youthful and effective in warding off age-related diseases? In a new paper published in Cellular & Molecular Immunology, USC Stem Cell scientist Rong Lu and her ...

A new study has discovered a molecular signal that tumors exploit to exhaust the T cells meant to destroy them—and how silencing that signal could revive the body’s immunity. The study led by Weill ...

Immune cells native to the intestines travel to the pancreas to stimulate glucagon production in pancreatic alpha cells, thereby contributing to the regulation of blood glucose levels, suggests a ...

Our brains might prime our immune system merely by seeing someone who looks sick. A study published July 28 in Nature Neuroscience found that participants who saw sick-looking faces in virtual reality ...