Immune System

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 ...

One challenge in treating pancreatic cancer is getting chemotherapy to reach the tumor cells. That’s because the tumors are surrounded by a forbidding microenvironment, a ...

Our immune system is designed to repel disease, but occasionally it malfunctions. One potential result of an immune system overreaction is sarcoidosis—the growth of inflammatory ...

Immunotherapy is a dynamic area of cancer treatment. But while it can provide new options for patients, Aaron S. Mansfield, M.D. and colleagues point out ...

When proteins fold improperly, the consequences can be dire. At Mayo Clinic, Marina Ramirez-Alvarado, Ph.D., studies one type of protein abnormality associated with a complex and ...

The cause of rheumatoid arthritis, a systemic autoimmune disease, is unknown. But certain genes and environmental factors, such as ...