The Forum on Regenerative Medicine held a two-day virtual workshop that explored promising approaches to modulate the patient immune system and/or the regenerative medicine product for improving the ...

The immune system is a complex network of cells, tissues and organs that work together to protect the body from harmful microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi, that can lead to ...

It's widely known that breastfeeding impacts the health of both mother and child, but the underlying biology that leads to these effects has been understudied. In a review article publishing in the ...

New research co-led by Burnet Institute and WEHI has uncovered how the human immune system fights Plasmodium vivax, paving ...

Cancer immunotherapies, including cancer vaccines, harness and amplify the immune system’s natural ability to detect and attack cancer cells. In this illustration, immune T cells (pink) attach to a ...

A new study identifies an extreme but effective way that brain immune cells can prevent the parasite Toxoplasma gondii from spreading: they kill themselves to eliminate the dangerous microbes they ...

Why can the human immune system often remember a vaccination for a whole lifetime? Researchers at ...

The yeast Candida albicans colonizes mucosal surfaces and is usually harmless. However, under certain conditions it can cause dangerous infections. A research team at the University of Zurich has now ...

Thousands of tiny fruit flies soon will journey into space to help NASA scientists better understand changes in the human immune system caused by space flight. Despite differences in size and ...

An Indian review reveals how macrophages are reprogrammed inside breast tumours, helping cancer grow and spread while opening new treatment pathways.

A diagnosis of Kaposi sarcoma is a significant life event, but it is a manageable condition. Because KS is so closely linked ...