The average human has about 1.8 trillion immune cells. These cells patrol the body for bacteria, viruses, cancers, and other ...

A new study from the University of Gothenburg may help guide the development of better influenza vaccines. Memory cells in ...

Measles can induce immune amnesia, a phenomenon that eliminates acquired immunity to other infectious diseases.

Prostate cancer has long frustrated immunologists. Checkpoint inhibitors that unleash the immune system against tumors in the ...

A 47-year-old woman in Germany had spent more than a decade battling three severe autoimmune diseases at once: autoimmune ...

A patient with three different autoimmune diseases has entered complete remission after undergoing an experimental treatment ...

HIV can be controlled but not completely eradicated by current drugs. (Artem_Egorov/iStock/Getty Images Plus) After receiving ...

New findings reveal that obesity significantly impaired the quality and longevity of antibody responses to a Pseudomonas ...

In total, about a quarter of adults in the United States have seasonal allergies, and they can become sensitized over a ...

Researchers found that genetic variants linked to type 1 diabetes risk are also active in certain brain cells. The most important signal appeared in microglia, which are the brain’s resident immune ...

Losing your sense of smell might signal Alzheimer’s far earlier than expected. Scientists found that immune cells in the brain actively destroy smell-related nerve fibers after detecting abnormal ...