It is generally agreed that a number of types of nutritional deficiencies, including vitamin D-deficient rickets, can cause a temporary state of immune deficiency. As a result, children with rickets ...

Your immune system is your body’s built-in defense network, working nonstop to protect you from bacteria, viruses, and other ...

As we age, the immune system gradually declines in function, leaving the body more vulnerable to disease. Scientists have ...

Pancreatic cancer may evade the immune system not by accident but by actively switching off internal danger signals through ...

In order to reprogram readily available cells into specific immune cells that fight various diseases, one must know the "recipe" for the transformation. Researchers at Lund University have now created ...

In order to reprogram readily available cells into specific immune cells that fight various diseases, one must know the ...

A vitamin A byproduct could weaken the immune system's cancer-fighting ability, according to new Princeton University ...

To our immune system, naked RNA is a sign of a viral or bacterial invasion and must be attacked. But our own cells also have RNA. To ward off trouble, our cells clothe their RNA in sugars, Vijay ...

People who commonly experience everyday discrimination are more likely to have higher levels of "exhausted" white blood cells ...