Herd immunity occurs when enough people become immune to a disease, either through vaccination or previous infection. This can reduce the likelihood of it spreading and increase protection for ...

Across the world, only a few dozen people appear to carry a genetic glitch that lets them brush off viruses that flatten ...

A new study shows human immune systems differ across populations, raising new questions for medicine and global drug research ...

In the battle against type 1 diabetes (T1D), one researcher at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is leading a ...

Plants mobilize their immune defenses far earlier than scientists have believed for decades—and through a previously ...