The UK banned the use of home‑donated plasma in 1998 over fears it could transmit variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD), the human form of "mad cow disease", which led the NHS to rely on imported ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have developed a simplified version of biodegradable nanoparticles that can "educate" the immune system to find and destroy disease-causing cells throughout ...

Researchers identified dietary proteins that shape oral tolerance through intestinal regulatory T cells. Learn how food antigens may train immune tolerance.

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have developed a simplified version of biodegradable nanoparticles that can “educate” the immune system to find and destroy disease-causing cells throughout ...

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 ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have developed a simplified version of biodegradable nanoparticles that can "educate" the immune system to find and destroy disease-causing cells throughout ...

Innate immune sensors – known as pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) – detect specific molecular components of bacterial or viral intruders. The PRRs forward the signals which results in the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic brought messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines to the forefront of global health care. After their clinical ...

As a world leader in the immuno-oncology field, Dr. Zihai Li has long been at the forefront of cancer immunotherapy.

Most people know only two things about the appendix: You don’t need it – and if it bursts, you need surgery fast. That basic ...