Inflammation covertly rewires the bone marrow, enabling mutated stem cells to rise and setting the stage for future blood disease.

Doctors in the UK have genetically modified immune cells borrowed from healthy people to create a ‘living drug’ that stays in ...

Find out how vitamin C and vitamin D function in your body, their role in immune defense, and how much you may need for optimal support.

Two complementary studies reveal how an insufficient supply of energy in macrophages, key immune cells in artery walls, ...

You likely consume it in different forms every day, but nutritional scientists learned it can elicit a strong immune response ...

A single blood protein can make aging stem cells act young again. As people age and notice changes like graying hair or reduced muscle strength, their immune system also undergoes shifts. One key ...

Natural killer cells act as the immune system’s rapid-response team, but the stress of anxiety and insomnia may be quietly ...

Taken together, these advances suggest that part of age-related immune decline is driven by specific, potentially reversible ...

Doctors in Brazil discover and confirm that a woman has blood with male chromosomes, a rare case of human chimerism.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Since researchers first established the link between diet, ...

Testing in mice suggests that rejuvenating T cells could make vaccines and some cancer therapies more effective.

In a person living with HIV, proviruses—strands of HIV DNA—are typically integrated into the T cell genome and become a ...