Once thought to be a flaw in the system, new research suggests that CD4 T cells may actually hold the key to maintaining a ...

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 ...

As the immune system ages, it reacts more slowly to pathogens, vaccines become less effective, and the risk of cancer ...

A peek inside some leading research labs shows how scientists-turned-detectives are painstakingly decoding what causes ...

Type 1 diabetes, in which the immune system destroys the insulin -producing cells in the pancreas, often develops more ...

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that anxiety may be controlled not by neurons but by two dueling groups of ...

People with type 1 diabetes must constantly rely on insulin injections or pumps, usually for the rest of their life after diagnosis. The autoimmune disease destroys the cells that produce the hormone, ...

Scientists have discovered why type 1 diabetes is more severe and aggressive when it develops in young children. Type 1 is ...