For decades, many of us have thought we could “boost” our immune systems with vitamin C or herbs, which would fight contagious illnesses, such as colds and the flu. But in reality, there are no quick ...

Scientists in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and MIT have created a new family of tools that, for the ...

Regulatory T cells (red) interact with other immune cells (blue) and modulate immune responses. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH via Flickr Every day, your immune system ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Seattle scientist was among three who won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their work on the human immune system. The ...

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. Brunkow, 64, is a senior program manager ...

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Researchers recently tried an experiment: Gather people who had the same kind of lung cancer and put them on the same type of treatments to fire up their immune systems. The only difference was that ...

Growing research suggests the bacteria left behind by the common childhood infection may trick the immune system into ...

Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a rare blood disorder in which the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys platelets. Platelets are small blood cells that play a critical role in helping your ...