This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries about how the immune system avoids attacking ...

Cancer immunotherapies, including cancer vaccines, harness and amplify the immune system’s natural ability to detect and attack cancer cells. In this illustration, immune T cells (pink) attach to a ...

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi were awarded the prize for research showing how the body regulates its immune responses. By Gina Kolata and Ali Watkins Mary E. Brunkow, Fred ...

T cell activation—the process by which these key immune defenders recognize threats and mobilize against them—depends on ...

From childhood coughs and colds, through meningitis B in teens and shingles in older people, here’s how our immunity to different diseases changes over time ...

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Small food protein signals teach immune cells to accept food. The finding helps explain how the body prevents food allergies.

Food allergies are serious and, for some, potentially deadly. And yet, despite decades of research into allergies and what causes them, very little is known about why the vast majority of people are ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries about how the immune system knows to attack germs and not our own bodies. The work by Mary E. Brunkow, Fred ...

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

Read full article: Hazy Morning with Warmer, Rainy Days Ahead School Closings in Metro Detroit. STOCKHOLM – Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries about how the immune ...