The brain and spinal cord are highly protected treasures of the central nervous system, wrapped under three protective layers ...

A new technology has been developed to suppress immune rejection, the biggest challenge in organ transplantation, without causing systemic side effects. A research team from Pohang University of ...

One of the long-standing puzzles in hypertension research concerns the role of the immune system in driving high blood ...

Scientists discovered a hidden “immune organ” inside the skull that acts as a rapid first responder against brain cancer in ...

Understanding both kinds of changes is becoming increasingly important as people live longer worldwide. Age-related immune ...

Despite having an overactive immune system, people with lupus may still struggle to fight bacterial infections. My team and I ...

Dr. Leondo Ferreira of the Medical University of South Carolina takes patient samples obtained from University Hospital La Paz in Madrid, Spain from a liquid nitrogen tank. A Medical University of ...

During fasting or exercise, immune cells (red) migrate to the pancreas and stimulate glucagon-producing cells (orange) to regulate blood sugar, with cell nuclei shown in blue. “For decades, immunology ...

Xenophagocytosis is a natural immune process that limits interspecies organ generation by eliminating living donor cells, researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan, report. By uncovering ...

Modifying the organ instead of the recipient isn’t a new idea, but it is an important one, said Jeffrey Platt, a transplantation biologist at the University of Michigan Medical School who was not ...