We all get sick sometimes. Even something pretty minor, like a cold or flu, can be enough to disrupt your life for a few days. When you have a minor illness, it does more than just make you feel ...

A special group of immune cells known as regulatory T cells, or Tregs for short, became an overnight sensation when a trio of U.S. and Japanese scientists won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered that some natural killer cells, NK cells, temporarily reside in our organs and then leave them via the lymphatic system. The study, ...

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The immune system functions best when it’s supported by health-promoting daily routines. Getting adequate sleep, limiting alcohol intake and eating the rainbow are immune-supportive lifestyle habits.

The immune system works to identify and target invading pathogens. Specifically, our bodies work to get rid of any harmful infections by employing a two-part immune response. The first wave of ...

We found that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines act like an alarm, triggering the body's immune system to recognize and kill tumor cells and overcome the cancer's ability to turn off immune cells. When combined, ...

Commercially available mRNA vaccines against COVID have been shown to train patients’ immune systems to kill cancer cells. Combining these vaccines with standard-of-care immune therapy overwhelms ...

MIT and Harvard scientists have designed an advanced type of immune cell called a CAR-NK cell that can destroy cancer while avoiding attack from the body’s own immune defenses. This innovation could ...

The entry/exit system (EES) is a new EU-wide digital border management system that records the entry and exit of non-EU nationals crossing the Schengen area’s external borders for short stays. It ...

The mRNA covid-19 vaccines seem to have an unexpected benefit: extending the lives of people being treated for cancers by boosting the effectiveness of immunotherapy. An analysis of the records of ...