Russia has been heavily sanctioned by the international community in the wake of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but ...

New research from the Stowers Institute reveals how our immune system protects us early in life but fuels inflammation and ...

As it does with other pathogens, your immune system sees drugs as foreign invaders to be expelled from your body. But ...

Scientists have discovered that cancer uses a hidden hormone to switch off the body’s natural defenses, allowing tumors to ...

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Inflammation is a vital part of the immune response, but it seems that the system can sometimes go awry, resulting in chronic ...

FEELING guilty about eating that pizza? Then it’s time to swerve the shame. Nutritional therapist Evie Whitehead has some surprising news: It is not only goody-goody superfoods that have ...

Stowers Institute researchers have found that the very thing designed to prevent the body from illness may be a factor in aging and chronic disease.

In the march of metastasis, a molecular trail of crumbs guides some cancer cells from the primary tumor to establish new ...

Immunotherapy is changing how we approach cancer—by using the body’s own defences to attack tumours. It avoids the widespread ...

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Scientists have developed a smarter way to activate the immune system against cancer, potentially making treatments safer and ...