The immune system faces a delicate balancing act: it must be aggressive enough to fight infections and cancer, yet restrained enough to avoid attacking the body's own tissues. More than two decades ...
The immune system faces a delicate balancing act: It must be aggressive enough to fight infections and cancer, yet restrained enough to avoid attacking the body's own tissues. More than two decades ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Aimee Pugh Bernard, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (THE CONVERSATION) ...
Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, attacking harmful invaders while protecting your own tissues. When that balance breaks, infections can spread unchecked, or the body ...
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 senior program manager ...
A team of scientists—including Jenny Umhoefer, seen here—uncover potential clues for future autoimmunity and cancer treatments by learning to fine-tune a gene that is centrally involved in regulating ...
Regulatory T cells (red) interact with other immune cells (blue) and modulate immune responses. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH via Flickr Every day, your immune system ...