Researchers are developing a two-part therapy for type 1 diabetes: lab-made insulin-producing cells paired with ...

A combination blood stem cell and pancreatic islet cell transplant from an immunologically mismatched donor completely prevented or cured Type 1 diabetes in mice in a study by Stanford Medicine ...

Work on peacemakers in the immune system won the 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. The peacemakers are regulatory T cells, a type of immune cell that calms the immune system after it has ...

One challenge of using cell therapy to treat type 1 diabetes is that this approach requires chronic suppression of the immune system to prevent rejection of donor cells. A Vertex Pharmaceuticals ...

Why can the human immune system often remember a vaccination for a whole lifetime? Researchers at ...

Immunotherapy, which uses programmed immune cells to selectively destroy cancer cells, has transformed cancer treatment. However, cancer cells have developed immune evasion strategies, leading to poor ...

University of Chicago researchers developed an mRNA nanoparticle system that triggers cells to produce PD-L1 protein, ...

It may be possible to treat type 1 diabetes simply by re-educating the immune system. Researchers at Stanford Medicine have achieved this feat in mice, opening up hope for numerous ...

For decades, differences in pain between men and women have often been attributed to psychological, emotional or social ...

A study published in Stem Cell Reports demonstrates that genetically engineered human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) can ...

It's widely known that breastfeeding impacts the health of both mother and child, but the underlying biology that leads to these effects has been understudied. In a review article publishing in the ...