Dealing with an infection isn't as straightforward as simply killing the pathogen. The body also needs to carefully steer and ...

Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, attacking harmful invaders while protecting your own tissues. When that balance breaks, infections can spread unchecked, or the body ...

Shimon Sakaguchi, an immunologist and a distinguished professor of Osaka University, attends a press conference after winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in medicine, in Suita, Osaka prefecture on October 6, ...

Scientists from the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with the Faculty of ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded on Monday to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for discovering how the immune system prevents itself from attacking the ...

Early thymic progenitor (ETP) cells, derived from hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow, enter the thymus at the cortical-medullary junction (CMJ), retaining multipotent differentiation ...

Chronic inflammation can silently drive autoimmune diseases and long-term damage. Doctors explain how immunity turns against ...

New research from the University of Minnesota Medical School offers a new view of how the immune system responds to organ ...