The prize-winning work explains how the immune system attacks hostile infections, but not the body's own cells.

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi were awarded the prize for research showing how the body regulates its ...

Canonization of the Roman Catholic Saint Carlo shines a spotlight on the near cure of acute promyelocytic leukemia — a rare, ...

From the moment they’re born, newborns — or, specifically, their immune systems — must learn to fight germs without harming their own tissues. In a new study, Yale researchers found that one type of ...

SAN ANTONIO – Thanks to efforts from doctors, researchers, health care providers and nonprofits such as Blood Cancer United, certain types of blood cancers are no longer the terminal diagnoses that ...

When you're sick, your immune system releases cytokines that signal your brain to suppress hunger, redirecting energy to ...

A research team at Lund University in Sweden has discovered a mechanism that helps acute myeloid leukemia cells to evade the ...

New research shows that the surrounding cells and tissues of the ovary play a crucial role in how eggs mature and how quickly ...

Texas Christian University's mascot - the endangered, indigenous horned frog - is one aspect of campus tradition that Native American students easily identify with. "A mascot does have meaning," ...

University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that ...

Researchers have found the first direct evidence that tiny particles of air pollution stick to red blood cells, meaning they ...