For many conditions including immune-related ones, genetics often explains only a small fraction of the differences between ...

Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, attacking harmful invaders while protecting your own tissues ...

A promising breakthrough in autoimmune disease research may open the door to safer and more effective treatments. Scientists ...

For the Nobel laureates, the journey began in the 1980s with Shakaguchi’s discovery, and was furthered in the 1990s-2000s by ...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Medical School have found a novel way to ...

As humanity prepares for longer missions beyond Earth, scientists are uncovering unsettling truths about how space reshapes ...

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 has been awarded for discoveries that explain how the immune system attacks hostile infections, but not the body's own cells. The prize is shared by ...

Hypoxia due to impaired lung function or high altitude led to epigenetic changes in the genome of neutrophils, cells ...

When Russian president Vladimir Putin visited Beijing in September 2025, he told Chinese leader Xi Jinping that repeated ...

For the first time, scientists have successfully created a type of mouse with a 100% functional human immune system and human-like gut microbiome. This 'humanized' mouse takes the guesswork out of ...