The most comprehensive map of the developing human thymus sheds light on how immune responses are built and maintained at early life, with implications for understanding and treating immunodeficiency, ...

A human study reveals how naturally occurring fat-derived molecules help switch off inflammation. Researchers at (UCL) have identified an important biological process that helps the body bring ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers are edging closer to a universal antiviral drug, a single medicine that could treat every virus known to man.

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

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

Researchers have developed a new method to recreate a robust and functional human immune system in mice using mononuclear cells from the cord blood. This new kind of mice, that count with most of the ...

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 ...