It must be aggressive enough to fight infections and cancer, yet restrained enough to avoid attacking the body's own tissues.

Once thought to be a flaw in the system, new research suggests that CD4 T cells may actually hold the key to maintaining a ...

Work on peacemakers in the immune system won the 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. The peacemakers are regulatory T cells, a type of immune cell that calms the immune system after it has ...

CU Anschutz researchers uncovered a link between a type of mucosal immune cell and gut inflammation, finding that the cells ...

By profiling over 16 million immune cells from people aged 22 to 65 after flu vaccination, scientists discovered that memory T cell function changes with age.

Cancer immunotherapies, including cancer vaccines, harness and amplify the immune system’s natural ability to detect and attack cancer cells. In this illustration, immune T cells (pink) attach to a ...

There's a new frontier in treating autoimmune diseases. Today's treatments tamp down the friendly fire but don't fix what's ...

A peek inside some leading research labs shows how scientists-turned-detectives are painstakingly decoding what causes ...

As the immune system ages, it reacts more slowly to pathogens, vaccines become less effective, and the risk of cancer ...

A peek inside some leading research labs shows how scientists-turned-detectives are painstakingly decoding what causes ...