Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas.

The immune system depends on molecular alarms that detect danger inside cells. One of these alarms is STING, short for ...

Immunotherapies – treatments that aim to make the body's natural immune system more effective – are becoming more widely used ...

Full-body defense does not always look the way textbooks say it should. In planarian flatworms, a newly identified cell type ...

Medical advancements over the last several decades have made great strides in the treatment of HIV. Pharmaceutical treatments ...

Our understanding of type 2 immunity has undergone a substantial transformation in recent years, revealing previously unknown functions. Beyond its canonical role in defence against parasitic helminth ...

An early view of the immune response to bacteria in the lungs provides clues as to why some people keep TB in check, while ...

Multiple PCV2 vaccines originating from different antigens and formula are commercially available and have shown great effectiveness in protecting pigs from clinical disease. However, our ...

Researchers hope that resetting these cells may help the immune system regain characteristics of healthier immune responses.

PGV001 vaccine showed strong immune response and was well tolerated in a phase 1 trial with 13 patients across multiple cancer types. At five-year follow-up, six patients were alive, with three ...