Around 5,000 Americans are diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) each year. About half of patients die within 14 to 18 months of being diagnosed, usually due to breathing failure. The ...

Now, scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and Columbia University Irving Medical Center have uncovered evidence that ALS may be an autoimmune disease. The researchers discovered that ...

Around 5,000 Americans are diagnosed with ALS each year. About half of patients die within 14 to 18 months of being diagnosed.

Talha Burki speaks with Fred Ramsdell, Mary Brunkow, and Shimon Sakaguchi about their Nobel-winning discoveries in peripheral immune tolerance.

Researchers identified immune cells that attacked the neuronal protein C9orf72 in individuals with ALS, spurring new ...

Scientists have found a way to transform hard-to-treat tumors into targets for the immune system. Using two protein stimulators, they activated strong T-cell and B-cell responses and built immune ...

Immune cells called double negative T cells are abundant in the intestine but have been poorly understood till date. In a ...

Individuals with post-COVID syndrome had higher immune cell counts after receiving exercise-based rehabilitation vs. usual ...

Research explained how body protects itself from the immune system, offering new ways to treat autoimmune disease ...

Researchers have identified how to encourage tumors to build their own immune hubs—structures that look and function like lymph nodes—deep in the middle of cancer. Such immune hubs, known as tertiary ...