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The immune system depends on molecular alarms that detect danger inside cells. One of these alarms is STING, short for ...

Scientists in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and MIT have created a new family of tools that, for the first time, illuminates the missing half of how the immune system uses ...

Our immune system is much older than we think. Long before dinosaurs existed, early life forms had developed a powerful defense system. Innate immunity has existed since the Cambrian period—that is, ...

Researchers have developed a new class of antibodies that amplify the immune system’s ability to fight cancer. By clustering immune receptors that normally receive weak signals from tumors, these four ...

In this post, we’ll talk about what you can control. By strengthening your immune system and taking a few simple measures, you can do a lot to slow the spread of COVID-19 and function at your best, ...

An innovative gene-editing strategy could establish a new way for the body to manufacture therapeutic proteins—including certain kinds of highly potent antibodies the are naturally difficult to ...

A key Alzheimer’s drug has finally revealed its secret. Researchers discovered that lecanemab works by activating the brain’s immune cells—but only through a specific part of the antibody called the ...

Over the last decade, the cellular cancer immunotherapy known as CAR T-cell therapy has roared to the rescue of many blood cancer patients. The engineered immune cells revolutionized treatment of ...

Researchers have identified a critical biological difference in how glioblastoma develops in male and female laboratory ...