A new technology has been developed to suppress immune rejection, the biggest challenge in organ transplantation, without ...

Robert Montgomery prepares a pig kidney for transplant into a brain-dead man in New York in July 2023. Scientists have successfully stopped a pig kidney from being rejected by its human recipient. The ...

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 ...

A new AI-based method reconstructs spatial information about where immune cells were originally located in an organ, even after these cells have been removed from the tissue and analyzed individually.

As populations age worldwide, the decline of the immune system, a process known as immunosenescence, has become a critical biomedical challenge. This decline leads to increased susceptibility to ...

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 ...

The scene at OneLegacy in Azusa on a recent Friday morning would have been familiar to anyone who’s been in a hospital intensive care unit. Three adults were tucked into hospital beds, still and ...

When the immune system starts damaging healthy tissues, autoimmune diseases can develop. These conditions can affect many parts of the body, including the joints, bone marrow, skin, and organs.