The cause of death for both Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were revealed on March 7. Betsy died from Hantavirus and ...

New research shows how a specially trained population of immune cells keeps the peace by preventing other immune cells from attacking their own. The study provides a better understanding of immune ...

Our blood consists of many cell types that develop through different stages from a precursor type -- the blood stem cell. An international research team has now investigated the developmental pathways ...

In an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made several ...

That era might now be over. In recent years, the U.S. had already begun to neglect its public-health infrastructure, ...

Measles is so infectious that when under-vaccinated individuals mingle, they'll always be at risk. That's why public health ...

During infections, the immune system needs to distinguish foreign antigens that are expressed by invading bacteria and viruses from self-antigens that ...

Scientists have uncovered a critical piece of the puzzle in autoimmune diseases: a protein that helps release immune response ...

A research team led by Mount Sinai has uncovered mechanisms of abnormal immune cell function that may lead to Crohn's disease ...

Bacteria get invaded by viruses called phages.Scientists are studying how bacteria use CRISPR to defend themselves from phages, which ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the ...