Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a new method to identify which proteins are most likely to trigger an immune ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a new method to identify which proteins are most likely to trigger an immune response ...

Vaccines and other immune-based interventions are among the most effective strategies for preventing and controlling disease. However, their development is ...

Lindsey DeSoto, RD, is a nutrition writer, medical reviewer, and registered dietitian who helps clients improve their diet for health-related reasons. Her writing covers a variety of topics, including ...

Stimulating the liver to generate signals normally produced by the thymus can reverse age-related declines in T-cell populations. As people age, their immune function weakens. Owing to shrinkage of ...

We are now approaching six years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, yet talk of vaccines and our immune systems persists in our cultural conversations—from ...

Anthony Wong is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia that receives funding from Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Health Research BC, and Canadian Biomedical ...

For years, scientists have viewed cancer as a localized glitch in which cells refuse to stop dividing. But a new study suggests that, in certain organs, tumors actively communicate with the brain to ...

The immune system function declines with age, but a team of MIT researchers may have found a way to rejuvenate it. When older mice were injected with mRNA that coded for the creation of ...

Increasing activity in a deep-brain region can boost the immune system’s response to vaccines—and people can be trained to do it themselves using the power of brain scans and positive thinking, ...

The same white blood cells that rush to fight infection seem to have a second job: preventing your body from burning too much fat. That’s the finding from a new study published in Nature, which ...