One immune cell may help slow aging by restoring the body's natural cellular cleanup process, according to a new study.

For most women, the body begins to change dramatically in their 40s or 50s. This transition, known as menopause, is defined as 12 consecutive months without a menstrual period, marking the end of the ...

Stanford researchers found that reviving immune cells that clear the body's cellular waste kept aging mice "lean and buff," ...

The immune system, the body's defense network against infections and injuries, can sometimes become too active. In these ...

A new technology has been developed to suppress immune rejection, the biggest challenge in organ transplantation, without causing systemic side effects. A research team from Pohang University of ...

We may age at different rates, but none of us escapes aging. A study in mice and human cells by Stanford Medicine researchers ...

During fasting or exercise, immune cells (red) migrate to the pancreas and stimulate glucagon-producing cells (orange) to regulate blood sugar, with cell nuclei shown in blue. “For decades, immunology ...

Dr. Leondo Ferreira of the Medical University of South Carolina takes patient samples obtained from University Hospital La Paz in Madrid, Spain from a liquid nitrogen tank. A Medical University of ...

Modifying the organ instead of the recipient isn’t a new idea, but it is an important one, said Jeffrey Platt, a transplantation biologist at the University of Michigan Medical School who was not ...

Discover how acute medical emergencies and sepsis can lead to multiple organ failure, even in seemingly healthy individuals.