Many of us are asking: Have I already been exposed to the coronavirus, and am I immune to further infection? A fast, easy, and sensitive new antibody test detects the specific biomarkers of long-term ...

ASMAs were first discovered in 1965 in people with chronic active hepatitis. Usually, your immune system will attack foreign bodies like a parasite or a virus with the antibodies made for defending ...

Tim Sweeney had been a surgeon for only one year, but he was already fed up with a seemingly unsolvable and dangerous problem. Many patients who underwent a major operation or trauma seemed unwell ...

A newly developed blood test that measures a specific immune response in the body could help doctors gauge how much protection a person has against Covid-19, according to a new study. The test, which ...

The vaccine immune response monitoring platform can identify weak responses in patients with cancer and help determine the potential need for a booster shot. A new vaccination immune response ...

Complement component 3, often called C3, is an essential protein of the immune system. This protein plays a vital role in the body’s innate immune system, providing: the first line of defense against ...

Editor’s Note: Kent Sepkowitz is a physician and infectious disease expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion ...

A new blood test may reveal Crohn’s disease years before symptoms begin. The test detects an unusual immune response to gut ...

Mice with human immune cells are a new way of testing anti-cancer drugs targeting the immune system in pre-clinical studies. Using their new model, a Kobe University research team successfully tested ...