As we age, maintaining a strong immune system becomes more difficult than ever. Our bodies naturally change, and one of the most significant shifts is in our immune response. With age, the immune ...

Older Adults Respond Well to Immunotherapy Despite Age-Related Immune System Differences Apr. 21, 2025 — Older adults with cancer respond just as well as younger patients to immune checkpoint ...

To understand how this axis between the brain and the immune system works, we then looked at how the brain communicates with the liver. This organ is important in sensing energy levels in the body.

organs, and proteins is even more complicated than we originally thought. Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have found a novel mechanism of our immune system we never ...

“When immunotherapy activates the immune system, the goal is to selectively target cancer cells. But this activation can also cause inflammation in other organs,” senior researcher Dr. Mark ...

which trigger an immune response if they make their way into tissues and organs. The researchers found that the activation of NLRP3 and AIM2 inflammasomes - proteins in immune cells that detect ...

the immune system becomes taxed, and inflammation flares up as the body’s last-ditch defense. “Inflammation is not necessarily a bad thing in the first day or two—it’s your body’s ...

Funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the study on mice shows that the brain’s hypothalamus controls how the immune system adapts during fasting, through ...

The metropolitan dog walker is a judgmental type. I know, because I am one. The daily ball-throwing expeditions in the park serve as both loyal devotion to one’s four-legged’s health and ...

Cancers driven by hiccups in RNA processing can’t hide from our immune system, according to new work published today in Cell. A cross-institutional team Fred Hutch Cancer Center and Memorial Sloan ...

And many are running out of time. Despite these challenges, the U.S. organ transplant system still saves over 48,000 lives a year. And policymakers have been pushing to increase this number.