Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, defending you from thousands of pathogens that cause disease ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered that some natural killer cells, NK cells, temporarily reside ...

How Does Libtayo Work for Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)? Libtayo is a specific kind of medicine called immunotherapy. Immunotherapies work by helping your body’s own immune system work to fight ...

It’s cold and flu season and most of us will encounter a virus at some point. So how does our immune system work to keep us healthy? According to Dr. Michaela Gack with Cleveland Clinic, once we fight ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When the first cells appeared on Earth approximately 3.8 billion years ago, viruses were already here to greet them. Ever since, viruses have been devising ways to infect cells, and ...

Repatha works by blocking a specific enzyme in your liver to help your body remove cholesterol more effectively. It is not an immunosuppressant drug, so it doesn’t work by suppressing the immune ...

"Build your enemy a golden bridge to retreat across" is a piece of advice offered by Sun Tzu in his ancient military treatise, The Art of War. It turns out that cancerous growths adopt this strategy ...

Our diets can affect our health, but despite extensive research, we still don’t have a great understanding of what diets are best for which people, and whether different diets can improve certain ...

New research from the University of Pittsburgh uncovers how inhaled house dust mites, a common trigger of allergic asthma, activate the immune system and drive this disease in mice. The findings, ...

New research from the University of Pittsburgh uncovers how inhaled house dust mites, a common trigger of allergic asthma, activate the immune system and drive this disease in mice. The findings, ...