New research shows that simply seeing someone who looks sick can activate your brain and trigger an immune response—before ...

To our immune system, naked RNA is a sign of a viral or bacterial invasion and must be attacked. But our own cells also have ...

Immunotherapy uses the body's immune system to recognize and destroy cancer cells. One way to do this is through immune ...

The findings suggest that when the brain senses a looming threat, it responds rapidly, triggering activity in brain parts ...

Borrowing a cancer cell’s disguise, scientists shielded insulin-producing cells from attack by the immune system, a ...

Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff diseases, genetic disorders affecting the brain, have no effective treatment and are typically fatal ...

A new study reveals that simply seeing a visibly “infectious” figure can set off a chain reaction in the brain’s ...

Doctors at the National Institutes of Health have discovered a new cause of skin cancer, according to a report in the New ...

Researchers in Switzerland and Italy found that simply seeing someone who looks contagious can trigger your brain’s threat circuits ...

Maintaining good overall health is key to living a long life, but we may want to particularly focus on the state of our brain ...

Dealing with the itchy, scaly patches that come with psoriasis is difficult enough. But having psoriasis puts you at risk of ...