The immune system depends on molecular alarms that detect danger inside cells. One of these alarms is STING, short for ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists – two of them American and one Japanese – for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of ...

Diets rich in sugars and fats are associated with metabolic disorders such as insulin resistance, chronic inflammation and ...

'Exercise certainly can boost your immune system, but it’s worth keeping in mind that – as ever – prevention is better than cure. If you’ve already contracted symptoms, it will take more time to ...

Anyone who has weathered a bad stomach bug knows the feeling: a loss of appetite that sets in and lingers, even after the initial illness. The same thing happens for millions of people worldwide with ...

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 ...

Immunotherapies – treatments that aim to make the body's natural immune system more effective – are becoming more widely used ...

We all get sick sometimes. Even something pretty minor, like a cold or flu, can be enough to disrupt your life for a few days. When you have a minor illness, it does more than just make you feel ...

Colon cancer hides from the immune system via one gene. University of Calgary researchers deleted it in mice, eradicating 100 ...

Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a rare blood disorder in which the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys platelets. Platelets are small blood cells that play a critical role in helping your ...

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinsky Institute has today decided to award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Mary Branco, Fred Ramsdell, and Simonakaguchi for their discoveries ...