An engineered protein turns off the kind of immune cells most likely to damage tissue as part of type-1 diabetes, hepatitis, ...

Scientists have identified a biological ‘switch' that prevents the immune system from attacking healthy cells. This discovery could revolutionize treatments for autoimmune diseases, which affect ...

In the situation of cancer, the immune system is failing to control and destroy neoplastic cells. Cancer immunotherapy (also referred as immune-oncology) is the modulation of the immune system to ...