#Immune

A new Finnish study reveals that just 30 minutes in a sauna can temporarily flood the bloodstream with additional white blood cells, potentially helping the immune system patrol the body and detect threats.…

Therapy pioneered by biotechnology Chinese firm HuidaGene showed promise in animals but caused a fatal reaction in a child.

Finding practical ways to analyse the state of a person’s immune system could guide treatment decisions and create opportunities for disease prevention.

It's been 20 years since Australian researchers created the world's first vaccine developed specifically to prevent cancer.

Researchers have uncovered a surprising reason dental implant infections often resist antibiotics: the implants themselves can contribute to the problem.…

Researchers have uncovered a hidden immune defense capable of attacking small cell lung cancer, an extremely aggressive disease that often escapes conventional treatments.…

The treatment is still experimental, but results from Moderna and Merck add scientific support for a vaccine-based approach to treating the cancer.

Researchers discovered that recurring arthritis triggered by cancer immunotherapy may be driven by immune cells that remember previous attacks and return in a more aggressive state.…

When viruses invade a plant, you might expect an all-out immune war. But new research published in Science shows that, much like in humans, too strong an immune response can actually do more harm than good.

From Ars Technica: Routine vaccines may cut dementia risk—experts have startling hypothesis on how

Scientists are supercharging patients' own immune cells to try to fight HIV without today's drugs

Scientists are supercharging patients' own immune cells to try to fight HIV without today's drugs.

A study of a few patients, to be presented this week, showed promise for a type of therapy that has already cured some blood cancers.

Early trial data from Memorial Sloan Kettering suggests a personalised mRNA therapy can dramatically improve outcomes for some patients and extend lifespans.

T cells, which target infection and disease, can become more effective after a meal. The finding might help improve cancer-fighting therapies and optimize our response to vaccines

It’s not just your imagination; getting ill on vacation is actually relatively common.

Most of the umbilical cord blood collected at birth is discarded. The tissue is clamped, cut, and disposed of as medical waste, along with the stem cells it contains, cells that are immunologically naive, genetically diverse, and capable of being…

Each animal species has an optimal temperature at which it can metabolize food and its immune system can best fight off pathogens.

RNA technology is regarded as one of the newest frontiers in medicine, but in fact a primordial innovator got there way before we did. The malaria parasite, an ancient single-celled organism, has been using sophisticated RNA maneuvers for millennia.…

At WIRED Health, immunologist Daniel Davis detailed the ways in which new technologies are enabling a better understanding of the human immune system.