A new method to keep human lymph node tissue alive and functioning outside the body for several days could give researchers a ...

The immune system can be "reprogrammed" to repair the body faster using electrical stimulation to jump-start healing, says a ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore and the National Cancer Centre Singapore have developed a ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A new study finds that proteasomes—structures that reside in all cells in the body and typically break ...

Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered that electrically stimulating “macrophages” – one of the immune ...

Pathogens are becoming more and more resistant to antibiotics. With the goal of developing new therapeutic approaches to ...

Chinese scientists have performed the first pig-to-human lung transplant ever, with the organ remaining functional for over a week after surgery.

Trillions of microbes live in the human gastrointestinal tract, where they play critical roles in our health and biology; they can help us break down food, absorb nutrients; and they affect the immune ...

Doctors just blurred the line between species with a radical transplant. Could this be the key to immortality?

New research has identified yet another way that spaceflight tampers with the human body. A study involving samples flown on ...