"Peacemaker" immune cells could help treat diseases ranging from type 1 diabetes to neurodegeneration by restoring immune ...

A preclinical study from researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, published today in Cell, details a ...

Immunotherapies – treatments that aim to make the body's natural immune system more effective – are becoming more widely used ...

Full-body defense does not always look the way textbooks say it should. In planarian flatworms, a newly identified cell type ...

We discuss the components of the innate immune system, including natural killer (NK) cells, macrophages and neutrophils, as well as components of the adaptive immune system, including CD4 + and CD8 + ...

People with type 1 diabetes must constantly rely on insulin injections or pumps, usually for the rest of their life after diagnosis. The autoimmune disease destroys the cells that produce the hormone, ...

Natural killer cells act as the immune system’s rapid-response team, but the stress of anxiety and insomnia may be quietly thinning their ranks. A study of young women in Saudi Arabia found that both ...

Researchers at the University of Arizona R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy have developed a new strategy that helps the immune ...

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas.

For the first time, researchers have transplanted gene-edited donor islet cells that secrete insulin in a person with type 1 diabetes (T1D) without the use of immunosuppression. The study subject, a ...

Age- and sex-related differences in immune cell compositions and immune outcomes have been identified across the life course, but a comprehensive and nuanced characterization of these changes during ...