The immune system plays a key role in detecting and destroying cancer cells. Cancer immunotherapy works by programming immune cells to recognize and eliminate cancer cells. However, many cancers ...

Edits create cells that don’t trigger an immune response, allowing implant recipient to forego immune-suppressing drugs.

Our diets can affect our health, but despite extensive research, we still don’t have a great understanding ... | Cell And ...

Researchers have discovered the “fountain of youth” for cells - but it comes with a big cost. Some people over 60 years old were found to have immune systems that appear to be much younger in ...

Researchers Virginia Commonwealth University have developed a powerful new therapy using an engineered molecule that kills tumor cells and activates the immune system at the same time.

Discover how Entamoeba histolytica evades the immune system by stealing human proteins, offering new insights for potential treatments.

Certain types of biochemical processes can impair the immune system's ability to recognize and kill cancer cells. Purdue University's W. Andy Tao and his associates have developed a new way to ...

Antibodies, which recognize viruses and proteins that the body has encountered before, have long gotten most of the credit for giving the human immune system a memory. Now, researchers at the ...

When the immune system overreacts and starts attacking the body, the only option may be to shut the entire system down and risk developing infections or cancer.

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.

The immune system is meant to protect the body from infection and disease. But with age, it can become less capable of doing ...