The idea of turning back the clock on the immune system has moved from science fiction to a concrete experimental strategy. A ...

Organ transplants save lives, but unfortunately rejection is a key hurdle. Now scientists have demonstrated a potential new way to prime a recipient’s immune system to accept a transplanted organ, by ...

Your immune system is your body’s built-in defense network, working nonstop to protect you from bacteria, viruses, and other ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered how a subset of immune cells are essential for successful organ transplantation acceptance and that therapeutically targeting them may improve ...

A Carnegie Mellon University-led team is developing a functional 3D bioprinted liver for transplant.

A study published in Science by the Champalimaud Foundation reveals a surprising new role for the immune system. During periods of low energy—such as intermittent fasting or exercise—immune cells step ...

Researchers have discovered that mimicking cold exposure or fasting can trigger an immune response in the body that slows ...

One shot in the arm, and the whole body is protected. But how? For one thing, the immune system produces antibodies and cells that patrol the entire organism by traveling through the bloodstream. For ...

New research from the University of Minnesota Medical School offers a new view of how the immune system responds to organ transplants. The findings, published in Science Advances, show that T cell ...

Modifying the organ instead of the recipient isn’t a new idea, but it is an important one, said Jeffrey Platt, a transplantation biologist at the University of Michigan Medical School who was not ...

As we age, the immune system gradually declines in function, leaving the body more vulnerable to disease. Scientists have ...

During fasting or exercise, immune cells (red) migrate to the pancreas and stimulate glucagon-producing cells (orange) to regulate blood sugar, with cell nuclei shown in blue. “For decades, immunology ...