Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have developed a simplified version of biodegradable nanoparticles that can "educate" the immune system to find and destroy disease-causing cells throughout ...

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

During the recent Covid-19 pandemic, the rate of serious illness and death was jarringly high in older populations. Why? Weakening immune systems — as we age, we become more vulnerable to infections, ...

You might think of cancer as a mass of rogue cells that grow uncontrollably. But cancer is more organized and strategic than ...

The central nervous system (CNS) is especially sensitive to inflammation. Encased within the rigid boundaries of the skull and vertebral column, oedema resulting from inflammation causes dangerous ...