A terminal cancer patient rises from the grave. A medical marvel defies HIV. Two women with autoimmunity discover their own ...

A combination blood stem cell and pancreatic islet cell transplant from an immunologically mismatched donor completely ...

In a fascinating twist, Mayo Clinic researchers discovered that a sugar molecule cancer cells use to hide from the immune system might also protect insulin-producing beta cells in type 1 diabetes. By ...

David Ewing Duncan has spent the last 25 years being poked and prodded in the name of science. He's signed up for hundreds of tests because, as a journalist, he writes about emerging health ...

There are vaccines you can get to prevent illness and medicine you can take to treat it. But in between, eating foods that boost immunity can help keep your immune system strong and functioning ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A new study finds that proteasomes—structures that reside in all cells in the body and typically break ...

Immune cells that eat bacteria in the body don't stash them in specialized compartments as once thought, but turn them into critical nutrients that build proteins, create energy and keep the cells ...

Scientists have discovered why type 1 diabetes is more severe and aggressive when it develops in young children. Type 1 is ...

Though the NHS recommends most adults consider taking vitamin D until around March as daylight hours shrink, the service also noted: “There’s little evidence that supplements such as vitamin C, ...

As the immune system ages, it reacts more slowly to pathogens, vaccines become less effective, and the risk of cancer ...

A peek inside some leading research labs shows how scientists-turned-detectives are painstakingly decoding what causes ...