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Regular exercise supports immune health by improving the circulation of your immune cells and reducing inflammation, but ...

The immune system remains seriously out-of-whack—in an inflammatory state of overactivation and impaired ...

The miniature models could exponentially accelerate vaccine development, cancer treatment research, and improved health outcomes across a spectrum of diseases. The left image shows the immune organ-on ...

Pain-sensing neurons in the gut kindle inflammatory immune responses that cause allergies and asthma, according to a new ...

Researchers show that the immune system can recognize and control the latent stage of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, a finding that can inform the study of latency in other infections of the nervous ...

A new study reveals that simply seeing a visibly “infectious” figure can set off a chain reaction in the brain’s threat-detection circuits, triggering a measurable immune response, all without any ...

There is an undeniable connection between a strong immune system and nutrition. Learn why what you eat matters and other ways to boost your immune system.

Plants mobilize their immune defenses far earlier than scientists have believed for decades—and through a previously ...

Scientists generally agree that eukaryotes, the domain of life whose cells contain nuclei and that includes almost all multicellular organisms, originated from a process involving the symbiotic union ...