Scientists in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and MIT have created a new family of tools that, for the first time, illuminates the missing half of how the immune system uses ...

Macrophages remain ready to fight infection thanks to signaling molecules left behind by previous infections. That is according to new research from scientists at the University of California, Los ...

The immune system maintains homeostasis by the symphony with immune modulators and immune cells. A breakdown in the immune orchestra tunes in the ...

Cytokines are well-known players in the immune response, helping to control inflammation and coordinate the responses of other immune cells. However, a growing body of evidence suggests that some ...

Sat, January 24, 2026 at 2:56 PM UTC The immune system is the body’s natural defense network that helps to keep you healthy from things like bacteria, viruses, and parasites. It’s a complex network of ...

MIT engineers have developed a new way to amplify the T-cell response to mRNA vaccines—an advance that could lead to much ...

When you’re sick, hormones that regulate appetite, like ghrelin and leptin, can get thrown off balance, says Supriya Rao, MD, ...

Kate Markey, MBBS, PhD, has discovered a link between the intestinal microbiome and developing chronic graft-versus-host ...