The most comprehensive map of the developing human thymus sheds light on how immune responses are built and maintained at early life, with implications for understanding and treating immunodeficiency, ...

Sneaky parasite evades the human immune system by stripping cells and wearing them as a disguise Parasites are known to infect human cells through a variety of ingenious mechanisms. Many of them have ...

How does the same infection, say the flu or a cold, give some people mild symptoms and leave others suffering? Why do people develop autoimmune diseases? And will we ever be able to predict when—and ...

A human study reveals how naturally occurring fat-derived molecules help switch off inflammation. Researchers at (UCL) have identified an important biological process that helps the body bring ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A new study finds that proteasomes—structures that reside in all cells in the body and typically break ...

An initiative partly funded by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the UK has moved further towards its goal of producing a 'human cell atlas' (HCA) to map every cell type in the human body.

A new study from Harvard University comes as wildfires tied to a warming climate threaten to unravel years of progress toward cleaner air. Exposure to wildfire smoke can affect the human immune system ...

Researchers are edging closer to a universal antiviral drug, a single medicine that could treat every virus known to man.

A Carnegie Mellon University-led team is developing a functional 3D bioprinted liver for transplant.

I am lying under a blanket, feeling rough, staring at a bowl of oranges. Every fibre of my being is urging me to devour the lot. I can hear my mum – and medical friends at university – insisting that ...

Human peadiatric thymus image from the IBEX protein multiplex (44 proteins on the same image) platform. Thymic epithelial cells are labeled with DEC205 (cyan), pan-cytokeratin (purple), keratin 5 (red ...