Kimchi may do far more than add flavor to meals—it could help fine-tune the human immune system. A clinical study using ...

For the first time, scientists have successfully created a type of mouse with a 100% functional human immune system and human-like gut microbiome. This 'humanized' mouse takes the guesswork out of ...

Medical researchers have used animals, particularly mice, to mimic disease and study biological phenomena. The origin of mice as a standard model system for scientific research can extend back to the ...

The most comprehensive map of the developing human thymus sheds light on how immune responses are built and maintained at early life, with implications for understanding and treating immunodeficiency, ...

A drug-resistant variety of the common fungus Candida auris is gaining virulence and spreading across the globe, scientists ...

When the Human Genome Project mapped and sequenced the entire set of DNA instructions in a human cell—a 13-year, $2.7 billion global endeavor that completed in 2003—it produced one of humanity’s ...

Cancer researchers have chased the idea of a universal cancer vaccine for decades. The promise sounds bold and almost ...

Participants developed strong antibody responses , indicating that the immune system recognized and reacted effectively to the vaccine. Researchers also observed immune markers associated with ...

Microbes have been engaged in an arms race with one another that goes back for millennia. While we have been able to reveal microbial defense systems like CRISPR, and we have been able to exploit some ...

Sneaky parasite evades the human immune system by stripping cells and wearing them as a disguise Parasites are known to infect human cells through a variety of ingenious mechanisms. Many of them have ...

For centuries, physicians observed that nuns, who are celibate, had much higher rates of breast cancer, leading to the theory ...

An initiative partly funded by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the UK has moved further towards its goal of producing a 'human cell atlas' (HCA) to map every cell type in the human body.