Recent research on human evolution suggests that the extinction of our Neanderthal cousins may have been hastened by ...

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In 2015, Bluestone led a small clinical trial to isolate and grow Tregs from diabetes patients and then reinfuse the cells ...

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A Czech scientist has contributed to understanding the function of the thymus—the training center of the immune system. T ...

A pandemic-era breakthrough has allowed scientists to literally expand our view of plankton. By using ultrastructure expansion microscopy, researchers visualized the inner workings of hundreds of ...

The prize honored discoveries that defined peripheral immune tolerance through regulatory T cells (Tregs) and the FOXP3 gene, ...

This story has been updated. The human immune system is our body’s primary line of defense against harmful microbes, viruses and other invaders—but that defense line can sometimes run amok and attack ...