Stem-cell researcher Carolina Florian didn’t trust what she was seeing. Her elderly laboratory mice were starting to look younger. They were more sprightly and their coats were sleeker. Yet all she ...

One shot in the arm, and the whole body is protected. But how? For one thing, the immune system produces antibodies and cells that patrol the entire organism by traveling through the bloodstream. For ...

A study published in Science by the Champalimaud Foundation reveals a surprising new role for the immune system. During ...

Beneath the surface of your gut lies a vast network of neurons—as many as in your spinal cord. New research from the ...

Modifying the organ instead of the recipient isn’t a new idea, but it is an important one, said Jeffrey Platt, a transplantation biologist at the University of Michigan Medical School who was not ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Zika virus may be particularly adept at entrenching itself in parts of the body that are shielded from the immune system, making it harder to fight off and possibly lengthening ...

The immune system is meant to protect the body from infection and disease. But with age, it can become less capable of doing so. However, Mayo Clinic researchers have found that some older people ...

Organ transplant recipients take life-long immunosuppressive drugs to prevent their bodies from mounting an immune response against the donated organ, yet a substantial number of them still reject the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Really, one of the best ways to keep your immune system healthy is also one of the simplest: by ...

Transplant rejection occurs when the recipient’s immune system attacks the transplanted organ. This can cause the transplanted organ to fail, undermining the purpose of the transplant and leading to a ...