It’s cold and flu season and most of us will encounter a virus at some point. So, how does our immune system work to keep us healthy? According to Dr. Michaela Gack, Scientific Director of the ...

The concept of using the immune system to treat cancer is old, but the ability to do so has dramatically improved.

Sharon Evans, a cancer immunologist at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center who studies the role of temperature in T cell responses, said that, to date, the influence of the external environment ...

Vitamin D appears to influence our immune health, too. Studies have found a link between low vitamin D levels and incidence ...

Your body’s stress response can trigger several physiological changes, which can affect immune function. Why you’re stressed and how long you’re stressed can impact how your immune system responds.

A new map of the gut reveals where celiac disease really begins and how microbes, genes, and gluten activate the immune system.

Tom Anchordoquy receives funding for this work from the Nationals Institutes of Health through grant # RO1 CA289447. When the first cells appeared on Earth approximately 3.8 billion years ago, viruses ...

Barr virus—but new research reveals how it can hijack immune cells, sparking a chronic disease that attacks the body from ...