Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, attacking harmful invaders while protecting your own tissues. When that balance breaks, infections can spread unchecked, or the body ...
Early thymic progenitor (ETP) cells, derived from hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow, enter the thymus at the cortical-medullary junction (CMJ), retaining multipotent differentiation ...
Historically, treatments for autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, myasthenia gravis, and primary biliary cholangitis have relied upon immune suppression. That approach can be effective, but ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The 2025 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine winners, Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and ...
Antibodies, which recognize viruses and proteins that the body has encountered before, have long gotten most of the credit for giving the human immune system a memory. Now, researchers at the ...
Invisible particles in the air are not just irritating our lungs, they are quietly rewiring the immune system that is supposed to protect us. A growing body of research suggests that long before ...