Your immune system includes your body's cells, tissues, and organs, which work together to fight off infections and diseases. But how much do you know about it? When you understand everything that ...

"Our data was derived largely from undirected computational analysis of human tissues that ... if these components of the intestinal immune system fail," said Professor Jo Spencer.

Inside the human body, the immune system is confronted with a similar threat from microbial tricksters that seek to breach the body’s defenses to perpetuate their own survival. To move stealthily ...

Scientists explore how the immune and nervous systems constantly communicate, influencing brain diseases, behavior, and ...

The core components of CRISPR-based genome-editing ... to mask them from the immune system. The team identified protein sequences on each nuclease that trigger the immune system and used ...

Between the lungs and in front of the heart sits a small gland called the thymus that wields incredible power over human health by producing T cells, key components of our immune system. In cancer ...

[101] In light of this, it is becoming critical to improve our understanding of aging and its associated diseases to support existing healthcare systems coping with the burden of diseases and to ...

we still surprisingly know relatively little about how the specific components pf smoke affect our immune system and how they impact multiple parts of the human body.” As part of their reported ...

Researchers have demonstrated a way to boost thymic function after damage using a specific type of regulatory T cell.