T cells, which target infection and disease, can become more effective after a meal. The finding might help improve ...

During the recent Covid-19 pandemic, the rate of serious illness and death was jarringly high in older populations. Why? Weakening immune systems — as we age, we become more vulnerable to infections, ...

A blood draw takes about five minutes. Analyzing what it reveals about how quickly your immune cells are aging could, ...

What keeps some immune systems youthful and effective in warding off age-related diseases? In a new paper published in Cellular & Molecular Immunology, USC Stem Cell scientist Rong Lu and her ...

Immunologist Dr. Jenna Macciochi explains that as we age, our immune system starts to decline. Here's how to spot an immune ...

Aplastic anemia is a rare, life-threatening blood disorder where patients are unable to make enough blood cells due to the ...

Study in adults and children with aplastic anemia identifies parallel evolutionary pathways used by hematopoietic stem cells ...

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 ...

It has only recently become known that two parallel systems of blood formation exist in the body, originating from different precursor cells. Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) ...

The immune systems of cancer patients are highly disrupted, with those who have a higher number of immune cells in their blood having a better survival rate, finds a new study that uses a pioneering ...

Researchers have developed a new method to recreate a robust and functional human immune system in mice using mononuclear cells from the cord blood. This new kind of mice, that count with most of the ...

Imagine a routine blood draw at your annual physical that could warn you about depression before you ever feel it coming.