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

More than 35,000 men in the United States die from prostate cancer each year. Now, a new study reveals the immune cell ...

It is generally agreed that a number of types of nutritional deficiencies, including vitamin D-deficient rickets, can cause a temporary state of immune deficiency. As a result, children with rickets ...

A research team has discovered a previously unknown mechanism by which the immune system fights bacterial infections. The scientists found that a specific protein, the chloride channel PACC1, is ...

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

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have discovered how tumors disable immune "gatekeeper" cells that alert the ...

A relaxing sauna session may do more than just help you unwind. A new study from Finland suggests that spending time in a ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded earlier this month to immunologists Mary E. Brunkow (Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle), Fred Ramsdell (Sonoma Biotherapeutics, San ...

Details and references regarding individual diseases are provided in the Supplementary Appendix. CIDP denotes chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, Covid-19 coronavirus disease 2019, and ...

Chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy reduces vaccine immunity, with many patients lacking seroprotection despite stable antibody levels.