People often get immunotherapy as a treatment for cancer. These immunotherapy treatments can be effective, but they may cause your immune system to have an unnatural response. Your body, as a result ...

In recent years, scientists have begun to reveal the myriad ways that gut microbes can impact our health; they had identified ...

Very early in the COVID-19 pandemic clinical trials in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 confirmed that corticosteroids like dexamethasone reduced mortality, but they were harmful when applied at ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan studied what happens when macrophages—a type of immune cell—encounter dying cancer cells in tumors and discovered a mechanism that accelerates tumor growth.

Recently, new immune-based treatments have shown impressive results when multiple myeloma returns, changing how doctors treat ...

Stem cells hold immense therapeutic potential due to their self-renewal capacity and ability to differentiate into various cell types. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are multipotent stem cells derived ...

Bacteria in the human gut can directly deliver proteins into human cells, actively shaping immune responses. A consortium led ...