Kimchi may do far more than add flavor to meals—it could help fine-tune the human immune system. A clinical study using ...

For the first time, scientists have successfully created a type of mouse with a 100% functional human immune system and human-like gut microbiome. This 'humanized' mouse takes the guesswork out of ...

Medical researchers have used animals, particularly mice, to mimic disease and study biological phenomena. The origin of mice as a standard model system for scientific research can extend back to the ...

The most comprehensive map of the developing human thymus sheds light on how immune responses are built and maintained at early life, with implications for understanding and treating immunodeficiency, ...

For centuries, physicians observed that nuns, who are celibate, had much higher rates of breast cancer, leading to the theory ...

Researchers are striving to understand the impact a phenomenon known as original antigenic sin has on immunity to the virus.

Cancer researchers have chased the idea of a universal cancer vaccine for decades. The promise sounds bold and almost ...

When the Human Genome Project mapped and sequenced the entire set of DNA instructions in a human cell—a 13-year, $2.7 billion global endeavor that completed in 2003—it produced one of humanity’s ...

From vitamin C to your microbiome and mindset, the latest science of immunity is often counterintuitive. Here's how to give ...

Microbes have been engaged in an arms race with one another that goes back for millennia. While we have been able to reveal microbial defense systems like CRISPR, and we have been able to exploit some ...

Sneaky parasite evades the human immune system by stripping cells and wearing them as a disguise Parasites are known to infect human cells through a variety of ingenious mechanisms. Many of them have ...