The exchange of cells between a mother and a fetus is a well-documented phenomenon that scientists have known about for more ...

Researchers found that young and old mice with sepsis relied on the same tolerance pathway, but it protected the young and ...

University of Minnesota Medical School researchers found that spleen-driven T cell exhaustion can promote organ transplant ...

A vitamin A byproduct has been found to quietly disarm the immune system, allowing tumors to evade attack and weakening ...

Thousands of bacterial and other microbial species live in the human gut, supporting healthy digestion, immunity, metabolism and other functions. Precisely how these microbes are protected from immune ...

Though it has long been recognized that the liver exhibits remarkable immune tolerance, the underlying mechanisms driving ...

New research from the University of Minnesota Medical School offers a new view of how the immune system responds to organ transplants. The findings, published today in Science AdvancesExternal link ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic immune-mediated disease characterized by the destruction of myelin sheaths, neuroaxonal damage, glial cell activation and formation of demyelinated plaques in the ...

STOCKHOLM — Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. Brunkow, 64, is a senior program ...

New research from the University of Minnesota Medical School offers a new view of how the immune system responds to organ ...

Mitera Biosciences is emerging from stealth with $1.75 million and a mission to develop new drugs for autoimmune diseases and organ transplant rejection.