Researchers monitored brain activity when people were shown images of sick-looking avatars via VR. The brain appeared to spark an immune response.

A CRISPR kidney that is part pig, part person is just another step toward editing our children’s genes. Call it sci-fi ...

Experts make human volunteers face approaching pathogens in virtual reality and find that specific brain regions become ...

Opinion Modeling the Human Immune System A new open-science project aims to harness the power of machine learning to decode the human immunome. By Jane Metcalfe • Illustration by Somnath Bhatt ...

There are evolutionary reasons why the immune system may have evolved to overreact in this way (panic attacks are another ...

A new mRNA-based vaccine triggers a response from the innate immune system to help arm the body against cancer, a mouse study ...

To our immune system, naked RNA is a sign of a viral or bacterial invasion and must be attacked. But our own cells also have ...

Human peadiatric thymus image from the IBEX protein multiplex (44 proteins on the same image) platform. Thymic epithelial cells are labeled with DEC205 (cyan), pan-cytokeratin (purple), keratin 5 ...

To better understand why some cancer patients struggle to fight off infections, Georgia Tech researchers have created tiny lab-grown models of human immune systems. These miniature models—known ...

The human immune system evolved during times when reaching advanced age was relatively uncommon, suggesting it lacks specific adaptations for very long lifespans.

Wednesday, June 18, 2025 Support The Sun Advertise Several biotechnology companies are hoping that a better understanding of SARS-CoV-2's antibodies will lead to effective treatments. Sabrina Xie ...

Scientists at UT Health San Antonio have created mice with fully functioning human immune systems that could revolutionize how researchers study all kinds of things that require an immune response, ...