"Peacemaker" immune cells could help treat diseases ranging from type 1 diabetes to neurodegeneration by restoring immune ...

A discovery published in Nature Immunology has shed light on why the immune system is less aggressive toward self-antigens, offering new opportunities to enhance cancer immunotherapy. Researchers from ...

Sattely and her co-authors revealed that oral tolerance – an active function of the immune system – involves recognition of specific proteins in common food sources like corn, soy, and wheat that ...

All 63 donor-recipient pairs enrolled and treated according to protocol across multiple clinical centers Randomized, controlled Phase IIb trial ...

Weill Cornell Medicine investigators made an unexpected finding about how the immune system normally suppresses inappropriate chronic inflammation in the intestine, potentially opening new avenues for ...

A trio of scientists — two of them American and one Japanese — have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance, a mechanism by which the body helps ...

If you have had strep throat or an ear infection, there's a good chance you received amoxicillin or penicillin to effectively kill the troublesome bacteria. These drugs, which belong to a broad group ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Tregzi, the first regulatory T (Treg) cell-based immunotherapy for ...

Weill Cornell Medicine investigators made an unexpected finding about how the immune system normally suppresses inappropriate chronic inflammation in the intestine, potentially opening new avenues for ...