The video shows how our lymphatic system works undercover to protect our immune system. The network transports about two liters of lymphatic fluid throughout the body, identifies pathogens, trains ...

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 ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered that some natural killer cells, NK cells, temporarily reside in our organs and then leave them via the lymphatic system. The study, ...

As the temperature drops and sniffles start making their rounds, we’re all thinking about ways to strengthen our immunity: vitamin C, hand sanitizer, maybe a flu shot. But while you’re focused on ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their work on how our immune system is prevented from attacking our organs.

Groundbreaking new tests reveal patterns in our immune systems that can signal underlying disease and tell us how well we might recover from our next cold. I got my results in a text message. The ...

How an Israeli mathematician is using AI to decode the human immune system and transform patient treatment ...

How do we recover from illness when our immune system works against us? Autoimmune conditions contribute to disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, ...

Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a rare blood disorder in which the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys platelets. Platelets are small blood cells that play a critical role in helping your ...