A US-Japanese trio on Monday won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for research into how the immune system is kept in check by ...

And Dr Hussain Ahmad, a hospital doctor, said: “I don’t really like the word boost when we talk about the immune system. It gives the idea that you can switch it on or make it stronger with tablets or ...

In the recent decades, there has been an increase in the aging population across the world coupled with declining birth rates and an increased lifespan of individuals. The proportion of the elderly in ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, defending you from thousands of pathogens that cause disease while sparing your body’s own healthy cells. This ...

Johns Hopkins scientists discovered a way to convert “immune-cold” tumors into “immune-hot” ones by activating key immune ...

"mRNA cancer vaccines sensitize tumors to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in part by stimulating a surge in inflammatory ...

The vaccine appears to act like a wake-up call for the immune system. It energizes immune cells, which then respond more ...

Immunotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors has revolutionized cancer treatment over the past decade by producing cures in many patients who were previously considered incurable. However, these ...

Scientists are exploring how COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could ignite immune responses against cancer, offering a new path for ...