The immune system provides constant surveillance for the body, aiming to spot and eliminate disease-causing microbes or ...

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An international research team has uncovered compelling evidence that gut-microbe-derived molecules may play an important ...

A new study explains how pancreatic tumors use a sugar coating to hide from the immune system and shows that a newly ...

Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a rare blood disorder in which the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys platelets. Platelets are small blood cells that play a critical role in helping your ...

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. Brunkow, 64, is a senior program manager ...

Colorectal cancer breaks the usual immune rules, with certain regulatory T cells linked to improved survival. In many solid ...