They disable our defenses and hijack the cellular machinery in order to multiply successfully. For example, the herpes ...

Nobel laureate Shimon Sakaguchi reflects on the role of regulatory T cells in peripheral immune tolerance and how the cells ...

Scientists armed bacteria with cancer-killing viruses that infiltrate tumors, evade immunity, and attack from within.

A drug that harnesses the immune system to attack cancer cells has proved successful in preventing a rare and aggressive form ...

The idea that a single-celled bacterium can defend itself against viruses in a similar way as the 1.8-trillion-cell human ...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a viral infection that attacks our immune systems. Infection enters the body by contact ...

The idea that a single-celled bacterium can defend itself against viruses in a similar way as the 1.8-trillion-cell human immune system is still “mind-blowing” for molecular biologist Joshua Modell of ...

The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded on Monday to three scientists for discovering how a particular kind of cell can stop ...

A Wayne State University study published in the Oct. 3, 2025, issue of Nature Communications revealed that Zika virus ...

The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus.

Three scientists have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering how the body stops its own ...

Endurance exercise may train the immune system as much as the muscles. Older adults with decades of running or cycling had ...