Immune System

The immune system exists to fight infection, but it must also know when to rest once that infection is controlled. It’s a balancing act examined in a ...

In a new study, researchers on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus found that exposing female mice to the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) increased their risk of myocarditis, a rare inflammatory ...

It is a situation many parents will recognize: a wayward child is throwing a tantrum in a store. The parent takes the child by the ...

Many viruses are drawn to cancer like iron filings to a magnet. Why not put these viruses to use — finding, infecting and killing cancer ...

A few years ago, a team of brain cancer researchers ventured a hypothesis. The team wondered whether a particular protein, known as Yes-Associated Protein, or YAP, which ...

A graduate student and a research group at Mayo Clinic have developed a new “Goldilocks” Ebola virus vaccine that could induce a “just right” immune ...

In a health care environment rich in data but constrained by 24-hour days, Mayo Clinic researchers are working to make sense of it all. This ...

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, Mayo Clinic scientists identify a type of cell that coordinates the immune response within the brain. For ...

Diseases of the human body evolve and change, but their effect on patients is fixed. In a French hospital in 1894, diagnosis of a patient with ...

Measles has long been our enemy but with modification it transforms into a weapon against ovarian cancer. Rene Maleski knew it was bad news when the ...