Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine have uncovered a previously unknown way the immune system fights cancer — and the ...

As part of the body's first line of defense against foreign invaders, macrophages play an integral role in the innate immune ...

Immunotherapies are undoubtedly transforming the landscape of cancer treatment worldwide. By harnessing the body's immune system to fight disease, they can achieve outcomes in advanced cancers that ...

Cancer immunotherapy is built on a simple but powerful idea: the immune system can recognize and destroy cancer cells if it is properly activated. In many patients, however, this response is too weak ...

PGV001 vaccine showed strong immune response and was well tolerated in a phase 1 trial with 13 patients across multiple cancer types. At five-year follow-up, six patients were alive, with three ...

A surprising backup system in the immune response to mRNA vaccines may hold the key to more effective cancer treatments.

Diabetes is often described as a metabolic disease. Yet, over the past decade, it has become clear that the immune system is deeply involved at every stage ...

The gastrointestinal tract is continuously exposed to foreign antigens in food and commensal microbes that have the potential to induce adaptive immune responses for food allergies. Upon genetic ...

NEW YORK, May 23 (UPI) --It may not be the mythical fountain of youth, but the strength of the body's immune system could hold the key to a healthy, long life, experts told UPI. The concept of ...