Why does the same virus barely faze one person while sending another to the hospital? New research shows the answer lies in a molecular record etched into our immune cells by both our genes and our ...

A virus from humble black-eyed peas is showing extraordinary promise in the fight against cancer. Unlike other plant viruses, the cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) can awaken the human immune system and ...

At WIRED Health, immunologist Daniel Davis detailed the ways in which new technologies are enabling a better understanding of ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected mechanism by which the gut’s immune system maintains balance, challenging ...

Dozens of new discoveries reveal that defenses evolved by bacteria and viruses billions of years ago still define our own innate immune system. Evolutionary arms races — where one species is pitted ...

Kate Markey, MBBS, PhD, has discovered a link between the intestinal microbiome and developing chronic graft-versus-host ...

Human Buddy is an animated show that explores the wonders of the human body in a fun and entertaining style, similar to SolarBalls and MrSpherical. Key topics include the immune system, viruses, ...

But their options are expanding like never before as a wave of new research and therapies are “moving beyond a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach,” says DeVon Preston, an allergist at Cleveland ...

Symptoms such as fatigue, loss of appetite, altered sleep, and social withdrawal are often treated as inconvenient side ...

As our recent research shows, temperature directly affects the immune systems of vertebrates – regardless of how they ...

We often judge our immune systems based on how many colds we catch in a year, but experts say that’s an oversimplification of what is a highly complex network of cells, tissues and organs that works ...

Our immune system is much older than we think. Long before dinosaurs existed, early life forms had developed a powerful ...