People with hard-to-treat asthma often have to use medicines such as systemic steroids that broadly suppress the immune ...

MIT engineers have developed a new way to amplify the T-cell response to mRNA vaccines—an advance that could lead to much more powerful cancer vaccines and stronger protection against infectious ...

Cancer immunotherapy is built on a simple but powerful idea: the immune system can recognize and destroy cancer cells if it ...

A Phase 1 trial shows a personalized DNA vaccine (GNOS-PV01) is safe and doubles survival rates for aggressive glioblastoma.

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to help scientists accelerate drug discovery and search for new treatments ...

The immune system works to maintain homeostasis throughout the body. Various cell types and immune mechanisms work in concert to fight disease. Specifically, two waves of immunity orchestrate a robust ...

NKT therapy, agenT-797, delivers context-dependent immune reprogramming showing activation in cancer and anti-inflammatory ...

In advanced cancers, including breast, lung, and melanoma, leptomeningeal disease (LMD), a condition associated with rapid neurological deterioration, can develop. Treatment options remain limited, ...

The immune system is the frontline protection against infection, continually searching for and destroying unknown pathogens. While typical operation of the immune system scans for threats, some ...

Specific antibody deficiency (SAD) is an immune system disorder. It occurs when you have normal levels of antibodies but an insufficient immune response to certain types of bacteria. Antibodies, also ...