an immune system that detects and responds to harmful agents, including pathogens, viruses, parasites, and cancer cells. Ron Sender, a biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, and his ...

How does the same infection, say the flu or a cold, give some people mild symptoms and leave others suffering? Why do people develop autoimmune diseases? And will we ever be able to predict when—and ...

From minimalist wrist designs to full sleeves, body art has become so common that it barely raises an eyebrow.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. Brunkow, 64, is a ...

THE HUMAN immune system is full of surprises. Though it has long been known that the body’s internal defences spring into action when an infection-causing intruder—such as a bacterium or virus—is ...

Researchers explore the human immune system by looking at the active components, namely the various genes and cells involved. But there is a broad range of these, and observations necessarily produce ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries about ...

The emerging subdiscipline of "astroimmunology" has been formalized, focusing on understanding how spaceflight stressors significantly compromise the human immune system. A new guide, published in ...