Researchers at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology have found that physically resisting the formation of an immunological synapse actually promotes a stronger immune response. The findings could ...

Researchers at UAB have identified an immune pathway that might help explain why some women develop a serious pregnancy complication.

Scientists have identified mutated immune cell clones that could point to improved treatment for refractory coeliac disease. Researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and UNSW Sydney ...

Microglia are shown in red, and CD11c-positive cells in green. Scale bar = 100 µm. A research group led by Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan has uncovered a potential mechanism ...

Food allergies are serious and, for some, potentially deadly. And yet, despite decades of research into allergies and what causes them, very little is known about why the vast majority of people are ...

For decades, differences in pain between men and women have often been attributed to psychological, emotional or social ...

Young infants hospitalized with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) often become much sicker than those infected with ...

Small food protein signals teach immune cells to accept food. The finding helps explain how the body prevents food allergies.

It's widely known that breastfeeding impacts the health of both mother and child, but the underlying biology that leads to these effects has been understudied. In a review article publishing in the ...

Weight loss is notoriously hard to maintain. Within a few years most people regain the pounds they initially lose, whether ...

In recent years, scientists have discovered that some chemotherapy drugs not only kill cancer cells directly, but at least in some patients, mysteriously also trigger their immune system to attack the ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. Study finds infants' immune systems respond very differently to the two viruses, with important treatment implications ...