Chronic and viral infections can literally exhaust certain key cells in the immune system from a constant barrage of attacks.

Fascinating nervous system imaging reveals previously unseen obesity-related nerve damage in mice and humans — and some of it ...

Patients with end-stage kidney disease who have spent years on transplant waitlists now face a new clinical reality: two ...

Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that gut bacteria help regulate the development of the body's ...

The concept of trained immunity has redefined innate immune responses as adaptable, durable, and context dependent. Natural killer (NK) cells, traditionally ...

A protein produced by gut immune cells orchestrates both immune protection against pathogens and immune tolerance of gut ...

Researchers at the University of Münster and Ruhr University Bochum have demonstrated for the first time in real time that the body's own defense cells use catecholamines—neurotransmitters such as ...

The study of regulatory T (Treg) cells in immunology has revealed their fundamental importance in shaping immune responses during viral infections. Treg ...

There is a constant war going on in your body. Working against you are viruses and cancer cells growing uncontrollably, threatening your tissues and organs. Fighting on your side are immune cells such ...