A routine blood sample contains a diverse collection of immune cells that can reveal important clues about health and disease ...

Researchers at the University of Liverpool helped uncover how the body adapts its immune defenses during periods of increased ...

Influenza continues to cause major illness each year in the United States, leading to more than 35,000 deaths annually.

Molecules called reactive oxygen species, which include so-called "free radicals," have long been viewed as damaging ...

There is a constant war going on in your body. Working against you are viruses and cancer cells growing uncontrollably, threatening your tissues and organs. Fighting on your side are immune cells such ...

Researchers discovered a possible way cancer cells hide from the immune system: they build a thick, sugar-rich coating around ...

(Golser/E+/Getty Images) Today, the average human lives for about 71 years. A rare few people will see their 100th birthday, earning the title of centenarian, and even fewer will live past 110. We ...

People with type 1 diabetes must constantly rely on insulin injections or pumps, usually for the rest of their life after diagnosis. The autoimmune disease destroys the cells that produce the hormone, ...