Mariela Fonseca Ruiz selected a story about James Griffin, a local man raising awareness about sickle cell disease, as a memorable story of 2025.

Tatiana Schlossberg, President John F. Kennedy's granddaughter, has died. Here's what to know about acute myeloid leukemia and how it's treated.

As the immune system weakens with age, researchers have found a way to temporarily boost its function by reprogramming liver cells to support T-cell development.

A cutting-edge therapy using base-edited immune cells is offering a major breakthrough for patients with one of the toughest forms of blood cancer, T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. By precisely ...

Researchers discovered a way to keep T cells from wearing out during the fight against cancer, and the approach could make immune-based treatments far more powerful. They found that tumors use a ...

Researchers found a hidden signal that makes T cells shut down during cancer fights. Turning off this signal reawakens the cells and helps them attack tumors more effectively. Credit: Shutterstock ...

In 2006 immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi co-wrote an article in Scientific American that now feels prophetic. In the article, entitled “Peacekeepers of the Immune System,” Sakaguchi and his co-author, ...

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 ...

The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded on Monday to three scientists for discovering how a particular kind of cell can stop the body's immune system from attacking itself. The discovery of these ...

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells under the microscope, in purple. There is a serious need for finding better ways to treat AML that comes back after initial treatment. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR ...

Researchers have discovered a way to make the immune system's T cells significantly more effective at fighting cancer. By blocking a protein called Ant2, they were able to reprogram how these cells ...

The United States is officially involved in the conflict between Iran and Israel. As a result, many are wondering what the term “sleeper cells” refers to since Donald Trump and his administration are ...