A specially devised hybrid treatment has shown tremendous potential for treating type 1 diabetes in mice, scoring full marks ...

Stem-cell researcher Carolina Florian didn’t trust what she was seeing. Her elderly laboratory mice were starting to look younger. They were more sprightly and their coats were sleeker. Yet all she ...

Researchers led by a team from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel have just discovered a way to destroy harmful ...

A combination of blood stem cell and pancreatic islet cell transplant from an immunologically mismatched donor completely ...

During the recent Covid-19 pandemic, the rate of serious illness and death was jarringly high in older populations. Why? Weakening immune systems — as we age, we become more vulnerable to infections, ...

A growing number of American adults have weakened immune systems, which can leave them vulnerable to severe illnesses. By Knvul Sheikh Kaley Karaffa had just turned 28 when the reality of having a ...

In a study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research's annual meeting, researchers report encouraging early results from research investigating a potential way to help some cancer ...

Being born with two X chromosomes brings a host of health benefits, and recognising this could lead to personalised medical ...

New research comparing four different flu vaccines found that the ability of the vaccines to activate cells of the immune system that help to protect against infection varied greatly depending on the ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, along with collaborators at Northwestern University, ...