Our brains might prime our immune system merely by seeing someone who looks sick. A study published July 28 in Nature Neuroscience found that participants who saw sick-looking faces in virtual reality ...

T cells, which target infection and disease, can become more effective after a meal. The finding might help improve ...

Kimchi may do far more than add flavor to meals—it could help fine-tune the human immune system. A clinical study using advanced single-cell genetic analysis found that regular kimchi consumption ...

THE HUMAN immune system is full of surprises. Though it has long been known that the body’s internal defences spring into action when an infection-causing intruder—such as a bacterium or virus—is ...

Amid concerns about the simultaneous spread of multiple respiratory diseases, such as colds and influenza, with the change of seasons in current times, a clinical study has scientifically proven that ...

Millions of people worldwide carry viral infections they acquired at birth, often for life. For a long time it was assumed ...

After nearly 100 years of development, treatments that bolster the body's immune system to fight cancer are coming of age – ...

The immune system function declines with age, but a team of MIT researchers may have found a way to rejuvenate it. When older mice were injected with mRNA that coded for the creation of ...

Work on peacemakers in the immune system won the 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. The peacemakers are regulatory T cells, a type of immune cell that calms the immune system after it has ...