The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists – two of them American and one Japanese – for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of ...

Cancer immunotherapies, including cancer vaccines, harness and amplify the immune system’s natural ability to detect and attack cancer cells. In this illustration, immune T cells (pink) attach to a ...

Why can the human immune system often remember a vaccination for a whole lifetime? Researchers at ...

Your immune system may be weak if you have frequent, severe, or extended infections. Learn more signs of a weak immune system.

Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, defending you from thousands of pathogens that cause disease while sparing your body's own healthy cells. This careful equilibrium is ...

A new study has revealed that your immune system is keeping a secret diary, controlling how you get sick. Here is everything you need to know, along with how this study can help you.

Vaccines have traditionally worked by teaching the immune system to recognize a specific virus or bacterium—in effect, ...

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinsky Institute has today decided to award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Mary Branco, Fred Ramsdell, and Simonakaguchi for their discoveries ...