When food is scarce, stress hormones direct the immune system to operate in "low power" mode to preserve immune function while conserving energy, according to researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Scientists in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and MIT have created a new family of tools that, for the first time, illuminates the missing half of how the immune system uses ...

What if cattle were selected not only for their productivity, but also for their resistance to disease? A study conducted by a team of scientists combining systemic immunology, genomics and machine ...

Scientists at MIT and Stanford have unveiled a promising new way to help the immune system recognize and attack cancer cells more effectively. Their strategy targets a hidden “off switch” that tumors ...

Caption: Human neutrophils visualized under a confocal microscope with cell membranes stained red and nuclei blue. When faced with an infection during food shortages, stress hormones trigger an immune ...

A new method of precisely targeting troublesome cells for death using light could unlock new understanding of and treatments for cancer and inflammatory diseases. A new method of precisely targeting ...

Trans people are often vilified in the media, but the real issue is the control-based system that punishes them for rejecting the traditional binary of gender roles, and the state is being used to ...

Molecularly targeted therapies are increasingly relevant in clinical oncology, as they enable the selective modulation of specific biologic targets—such as enzymes or receptors—by inhibiting or ...

Background Japanese guidelines recommend a corticosteroid maintenance dose of 5–10 mg/day for cardiac sarcoidosis (CS); however, the optimal dose remains unclear. This study aimed to evaluate the ...