Cancer immunotherapy is built on a simple but powerful idea: the immune system can recognize and destroy cancer cells if it ...

Immunotherapies are undoubtedly transforming the landscape of cancer treatment worldwide. By harnessing the body's immune system to fight disease, they can achieve outcomes in advanced cancers that ...

Autoimmune diseases cannot currently be cured, only treated, and this is also true for neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, which affects the central nervous system. A study of how the treatment ...

Antibodies, which recognize viruses and proteins that the body has encountered before, have long gotten most of the credit for giving the human immune system a memory. Now, researchers at the ...

Diabetes is often described as a metabolic disease. Yet, over the past decade, it has become clear that the immune system is deeply involved at every stage ...

A combination blood stem cell and pancreatic islet cell transplant from an immunologically mismatched donor completely prevented or cured Type 1 diabetes in mice in a study by Stanford Medicine ...

The Argentine scientist, who discovered molecular switches that regulate the immune response, is a senior researcher at the ...

As part of the body's first line of defense against foreign invaders, macrophages play an integral role in the innate immune ...

Immune system disorders in children can involve an underactive, overactive, or misdirected immune response. Main groups include immunodeficiencies, autoimmune diseases, atopic diseases, and ...

An “immune system reset” cured autoimmune, or Type 1, diabetes in mice in a Stanford Medicine study. The approach may be useful for other autoimmune conditions as well as organ transplants.