Immune-checkpoint therapy (ICT), which attempts to harness a patient’s own immune system to fight cancer, has revolutionized ...

Macrophages are part of the immune system's frontline; they attack and "eat" invaders to protect surrounding cells. They, ...

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

Researchers from The University of Osaka found that macrophages use microautophagy, mediated by Rab32-positive ...

Diagram showing the mechanism discovered in the study. Inflammation of the intestines in ulcerative colitis results from an ...

The study is “unique in demonstrating that people’s immune system can be primed just by the visual recognition that someone looks sick,” Irwin adds to Simon Makin at Science News.

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 ...