Yale: Using the immune system as a window into your current and future health

For many conditions including immune-related ones, genetics often explains only a small fraction of the differences between ...
The Washington Post

Nobel Prize for medicine awarded for discoveries about the immune system

A Japanese immunologist and two American scientists shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine Monday for fundamental discoveries about how the immune system keeps itself in check, preventing ...
Times Union

How does your immune system stay balanced? A Nobel Prize-winning answer

Aimee Pugh Bernard, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (THE CONVERSATION) Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, defending you from thousands of pathogens that ...
The Washington Post

How can I boost my immune system as I age? Here’s what the science says.

I’ve noticed I’m getting more colds as I get older. What can I do to give my immune system a boost? Like the rest of your body, your immune system ages, too. This contributes to higher rates of ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

New study builds evidence of immune system’s role in ALS

A new study by researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, working with colleagues at Columbia University in New York, documents how the immune system functions differently in patients with ...
The New York Times

Are Childhood Vaccines ‘Overloading’ the Immune System? No.

Vaccines today are more efficient and contain far fewer stimulants to the immune system than some used decades ago. By Apoorva Mandavilli It’s an idea as popular as it is incorrect: American babies ...
Wall Street Journal

Trio Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine for Discoveries on Immune System

Immunologists Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for uncovering a process that prevents the immune system from attacking our own ...