Type 1 diabetes is a disease where the immune system destroys insulin-producing beta cells in pancreatic islets. About 2 million Americans have Type 1 diabetes. The islets of Langerhans are named for ...

When the immune system overreacts and starts attacking the body, the only option may be to shut the entire system down and risk developing infections or cancer. Immune cells that are designed to ...

Researchers at the University of Sharjah are exploring a promising approach that could enhance the immune system's ability to ...

A single signaling pathway controls whether immune cells attack or befriend cells they encounter while patrolling our bodies, ...

In most solid tumors, high numbers of regulatory T (Treg) cells are associated with poorer outcomes because they dampen the ...

Work on peacemakers in the immune system won the 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. The peacemakers are regulatory T cells, a type of immune cell that calms the immune system after it has ...

Researchers demonstrated that newly developed molecules designed to block an immune checkpoint can trigger a powerful immune response against tumors. Scientists at MIT and Stanford University have ...

For the first time, researchers have transplanted gene-edited donor islet cells that secrete insulin in a person with type 1 diabetes (T1D) without the use of immunosuppression. The study subject, a ...

Scientists at MIT and Stanford have unveiled a promising new way to help the immune system recognize and attack cancer cells ...

Stress and broken sleep do not just leave people groggy, they quietly chip away at the very immune cells that keep infections ...