Immune System

You're up in the mountains, the snow is blindingly white, and the sun is blazing down from the sky: ideal skiing conditions – but...

  New research shows that the lungs become more inflammatory with age and that ibuprofen can lower that inflammation. In fact, immune cells from old...

Type 1 diabetes, ulcerative colitis, and multiple sclerosis are among the more well-known autoimmune diseases. But according to the AARDA, there are more than...

Fatty liver disease – alongside fatty liver due to massive alcohol consumption – is mainly caused by excessive consumption of fat and sugar combined...

Patients infected by both human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are at specific risk of end-stage liver disease and greater risk...

Scientists have discovered how a common yeast, Candida albicans, adapts to low oxygen levels in different parts of the body, allowing it to emerge to cause...

Folk medicines and herbal products have been used for millennia to combat a wide range of ailments, and in the process confounding modern scientists...

In a finding that could herald a major breakthrough in cancer treatment British scientists have accidentally discovered a new type of immune cell that kills most...

Despite a name straight from a Tarantino movie, natural killer (NK) cells are your allies when it comes to fighting infections and cancer. If...

Cambridge researchers have discovered how T cells – an important component of our immune system – are able keep on killing as they hunt...