Northwestern Medicine investigators have developed a new avenue to reprogram compromised immune cells to act against tumors, ...

Diabetes, as defined by the World Health Organization, represents a collection of metabolic diseases characterized primarily by hyperglycemia, which can ...

Researchers at the (Belgium) have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that regulates the immune response against parasites.

Researchers at the University of Liège (Belgium) have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that regulates the immune ...

Mass General Brigham researchers discovered a previously unknown mechanism that may drive tissue damage and a new target for drug discovery ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy have developed ...

Nearly 60,000 people are diagnosed with oral cancer in the U.S. every year, according to the American Cancer Society, and the ...

The connection between the body and the brain has preoccupied philosophers and researchers for thousands of years. A new study at the University of Haifa has now identified a neural circuit that ...

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 22, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- A set of chameleon-like immune cells could be contributing to severe asthma in some patients. Intermediate group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) appear to ...

The human immune system is like an army of specialized soldiers (immune cells) each with a unique role to play in fighting disease. In a new study published in Nature, led by scientists at the ...

Cancer cells can poison attacking immune cells by filling them with defective mitochondria ― dampening the body’s defensive forces and helping the tumour to evade eradication 1. These findings ...

Cell-to-cell tunnels rescue neurons from degeneration Other immune cells, such as macrophages, can take up extracellular vesicles that contain mitochondria, which are then quickly degraded 6.