As the immune system weakens with age, scientists have found a way to restore some of its lost strength. By delivering mRNA ...

As people age, their immune system function declines. T cell populations become smaller and can't react to pathogens as ...

New research reveals that aging immune cells can become locked in a self-sustaining inflammatory state, worsening the body’s ability to respond to severe infections.

Researchers found that anxiety and insomnia were linked to reduced levels of natural killer cells in young women. As stress and sleep problems intensified, immune defenses appeared to weaken further.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: With more than 100,000 people in need of an organ transplant in the U.S. alone, scientists have turned toward perfecting human-animal chimeras as a ...

Even as they develop at their primary site, pancreatic cancer cells are already expressing the genes that will determine where they will metastasize, according to new findings from Columbia ...

Two complementary studies reveal how an insufficient supply of energy in macrophages, key immune cells in artery walls, ...

Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center have found that a cellular housekeeping mechanism called autophagy plays a major role ...

Testing in mice suggests that rejuvenating T cells could make vaccines and some cancer therapies more effective.

In recent years, the field of immunology has increasingly focused on the role of glycolipids and sphingolipids in the differentiation and function of innate immune cells, such as macrophages, ...