(Juan Gartner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) The human immune system has evolved an incredible ability to fight off ...

There is a constant war going on in your body. Working against you are viruses and cancer cells growing uncontrollably, ...

T cells are an elite fighting force of the immune system, seeking out and destroying diseased cells. But in a prolonged campaign against a chronic condition—like a viral infection or cancer—the body ...

Cell therapy is an advanced biomedical approach that utilizes living cells as therapeutic agents to treat disease or repair tissue. 4 Scientists isolate cells from a patient or a healthy donor and ...

Type 1 diabetes is widely understood as an autoimmune disease, with the immune system attacking the insulin-producing beta ...

A new stem-cell-inspired technique allows scientists to grow vast numbers of immune-cell progenitors that can be engineered ...

Humans have around 30 trillion cells in our adult bodies. Amazingly, each of these cells came from a handful of about 100 stem cells in the earliest days of development. The ability of these embryonic ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cell in the human brain according to the latest ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that one of the body's most fundamental biological processes—how red blood ...