Claims about food and immunity are everywhere. Now scientists are exploring exactly how nutrition acts on the immune system ...

“Autoimmune disorders develop when the immune system mistakenly assaults and kills healthy body tissues. Autoimmune illnesses are thought to be caused by a combination of hereditary and environmental ...

Immune cells called monocytes produce a key inflammatory protein called interleukin-1 beta (IL-1β) through an unconventional ...

Living drugs like these are costly. By using donor cells, the new study hints we might be able to mass produce them in the ...

“In general, autoimmune diseases manifest and cause symptoms and problems in various organs because of the inflammation that’s associated with them,” says Zachary Wallace, M.D., a rheumatologist (a ...

Black men with advanced prostate cancer have a greater chance of survival after immunotherapy treatment, at least in part, because of ancestral gene variants in immune responses.

There is no cure for autoimmune diseases, but symptoms can be managed through medication, lifestyle changes and other treatments. The exact cause of the conditions is unknown, but scientists theorise ...

The connection between gum disease and thrombosis underscores the role of oral health in reducing thrombotic disease risk and ...

However, the plot thickened when scientists found that EBV also causes mono and many people who are infected with EBV never get cancer. EBV is now suspected to be associated with autoimmune disease — ...

The following is a summary of “Altered B-cell, plasma cell and antibody immune profiles in blood of systemic mastocytosis,” ...

Roundworms harbor viruses, which could be responsible for these parasites' painful symptoms in humans, scientists theorize.

Trethera Corporation (“Trethera”), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company committed to developing novel drugs targeting ...