Type 1 diabetes is a disease where the immune system destroys insulin-producing beta cells in pancreatic islets. About 2 million Americans have Type 1 diabetes. The islets of Langerhans are named for ...

When the immune system overreacts and starts attacking the body, the only option may be to shut the entire system down and risk developing infections or cancer. Immune cells that are designed to ...

Researchers at the University of Sharjah are exploring a promising approach that could enhance the immune system's ability to ...

Natural killer cells act as the immune system’s rapid-response team, but the stress of anxiety and insomnia may be quietly ...

Work on peacemakers in the immune system won the 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. The peacemakers are regulatory T cells, a type of immune cell that calms the immune system after it has ...

Stress and broken sleep do not just leave people groggy, they quietly chip away at the very immune cells that keep infections ...

For the first time, researchers have transplanted gene-edited donor islet cells that secrete insulin in a person with type 1 diabetes (T1D) without the use of immunosuppression. The study subject, a ...

Normally, the immune system recognizes and eliminates abnormal cells. However, cancer cells can develop strategies to evade ...

From vitamin C to your microbiome and mindset, the latest science of immunity is often counterintuitive. Here's how to give ...

People with type 1 diabetes must constantly rely on insulin injections or pumps, usually for the rest of their life after diagnosis. The autoimmune disease destroys the cells that produce the hormone, ...