A microscopic parasite that can live for decades in the human brain infects an estimated one-third of the world's population ...

Sneaky parasite evades the human immune system by stripping cells and wearing them as a disguise Parasites are known to infect human cells through a variety of ingenious mechanisms. Many of them have ...

How does the same infection, say the flu or a cold, give some people mild symptoms and leave others suffering? Why do people develop autoimmune diseases? And will we ever be able to predict when—and ...

The project, titled Liver Immunocompetent Volumetric Engineering (LIVE), aims to address the shortage of donor organs by ...

Human peadiatric thymus image from the IBEX protein multiplex (44 proteins on the same image) platform. Thymic epithelial cells are labeled with DEC205 (cyan), pan-cytokeratin (purple), keratin 5 (red ...

Pancreatic cancer uses a sugar-coated disguise to evade the immune system, helping explain why it’s so hard to treat.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A new study finds that proteasomes—structures that reside in all cells in the body and typically break ...

A new method to keep human lymph node tissue alive and functioning outside the body for several days could give researchers a much clearer view of how our immune system responds to infections, ...

A new study shows human immune systems differ across populations, raising new questions for medicine and global drug research ...

Marketed as “liquid gold” for gut and immune health, colostrum plays a critical role in infancy—but research suggests adults ...

Novel research led by Brazilian scientists describes the immune system's reactions in detail in the first living patient to ...