Discover how high fructose levels can trigger immune overreaction, leading to inflammation and potential food sensitivities.

Van Andel Institute scientists and collaborators have discovered a potential treatment target that may re-energize dysfunctional or "exhausted" immune cells in their fight against cancer.

An international research team has discovered a critical protein that acts as a 'switch' regulating immune responses to viruses.

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 ...

Measles is a serious, potentially deadly virus, but it can also impact someone's immunity even after they've recovered.

Smoking tobacco is so harmful to the body that it changes a person’s immune system, leaving them vulnerable to more disease and infection even years after they’ve quit, a new study found.

Evidence suggests that there may be fluctuations in a person's immune system throughout their menstrual cycle. Learn more here.

If the COVID-19 pandemic has done one thing, it’s made us all more familiar with some of the important players in the immune system. Antibodies, B cells, and T cells are among the best known ...

Catching a few infections every year is perfectly normal. Here’s when to ask your physician for further testing of your immune system.

While it’s currently not known how precisely the immune system is linked with endometriosis (and whether it causes the disease), working to further understand this relationship could be key in ...