Immune System

Mayo Clinic's history of research into giant cell arteritis, an autoimmune disease, has led to recent discoveries that may result in new treatments.

Scientists link macrophages, or the first responders of the immune system, that have become so-called "zombie cells" in early-stage lung tumor growth.

Memory T cells live longer after infection due to an indicator of tissue damage, according to recent research from Mayo Clinic scientists and collaborators. Because ...

For more than twenty-five years, Christopher Evans, Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic orthopedic scientist, has pushed to expand gene therapy beyond its original scope of treating ...

Editor's Note: This is the second of three articles on caloric restriction. The first article focuses on replicating the effects of fasting. The final article ...

Researchers say a patient's routinely assessed immune profile on the first day of hospitalization might provide insights for treating serious cases of COVID-19. A study ...

Where you live may affect whether you receive the cancer-preventing HPV vaccine, suggests a new study published in the journal Vaccine. The first human papillomavirus (HPV) ...

COVID-19 vaccine are bringing nanoparticle bioengineering technology into the news. But what are nanoparticles? What are nanoparticle vaccines? And how could one vaccine provide immunity ...

Patients with celiac disease have the same hepatitis B rate of immunity after vaccination and risk of infection as the general public, according to a ...

Editor's Note: This is the first of three articles on fasting, or caloric restriction. The other two will focus on caloric restriction for neurologic disease ...