Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt researchers have built the first lung-on-a-chip with a working immune system, a breakthrough with the potential to reshape how we study disease, move beyond animal testing, ...

Vitamins and supplements like zinc and cod liver oil are often touted for their ability to boost your immune system, but Jeffrey Bland, the "father of functional medicine," says that's not actually ...

For clinicians, the ability to look routinely inside the body and see -- at the level of the cell -- how it confronts disease is a distant dream. But in a series of experiments with genetically ...

Groundbreaking new tests reveal patterns in our immune systems that can signal underlying disease and tell us how well we might recover from our next cold. I got my results in a text message. The ...

We sometimes hear about the benefits of “boosting” our immune system, but what we really want to do is support our immune system on an ongoing basis. People often think of the immune system as ...

Our immune system is much older than we think. Long before dinosaurs existed, early life forms had developed a powerful defense system. Innate immunity has existed since the Cambrian period—that is, ...

Our immune system is our army against any molecule that wants to invade our bodies like viruses, bacteria, and cancer. It is responsible for our protection. Just like an army, it has the ability to ...

The idea sounds almost poetic. The body, designed to protect itself, turns its own defence system against cancer. For decades, this felt like a far-fetched goal. Today, it is part of real treatment ...

Sat, January 24, 2026 at 2:56 PM UTC The immune system is the body's natural defense network that helps to keep you healthy from things like bacteria, viruses, and parasites. It's a complex network of ...

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 ...