Immune System

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 [...]

If the average TV show is to be believed, going into labor is easy to predict. It will happen to any character who is pregnant [...]

Outbreaks of COVID-19 infection spread while SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, evolves and circulates around the world. Given time, genetic mutations occur in the [...]