Once thought to be a flaw in the system, new research suggests that CD4 T cells may actually hold the key to maintaining a ...
Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna have taken a closer look at a previously largely unknown component of the immune system: the protein molecule TRAT1 (T Cell Receptor Associated ...
By profiling over 16 million immune cells from people aged 22 to 65 after flu vaccination, scientists discovered that memory ...
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Prof. Alon Monsonego had discovered that T helper lymphocytes, a subset of immune cells ...
The brain and spinal cord were once thought to enjoy immune privilege, meaning they were believed to be largely insulated from immune activity elsewhere in the body. In recent years, however, ...
A new study, recently published in Nature, changes that. Researchers showed, for the first time, direct evidence that autoimmunity may play a key role in ALS. 4 Specifically, in individuals with ALS, ...
Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi were awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their collective work in the discovery of specialized immune cells that roam ...
Scientists at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev reported Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, that they have identified a subset of CD4 T helper cells that expands with age and appears to hunt down senescent ...
A team at Kyoto University's Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, or CiRA, has succeeded in creating component cells for the thymus using human induced pluripotent stem cells. The thymus ...