13-01-18 Weight loss following infection with intestinal worms is the body's way of fighting off the parasites, University of Manchester researchers have said. 曼彻斯特大学的研究人员称，人体感染肠蠕虫后通过减轻体重这种方式对抗寄生虫。 The immune system hijac...

12-12-17 Our immune system does not shut down with age, says a new study led by McMaster University researchers. A study published in PLOS Pathogens today shows a specialized class of immune cells, known as T cells, can respond to virus infections in an olde...

12-06-11 Researchers at NYU School of Medicine have made an important discovery that partially answers the long-standing question of why a mother's immune system does not reject a developing fetus as foreign tissue. Our manuscript（手写的） addresses a funda...

12-02-13 For roughly two thousand years, Chinese herbalists have treated Malaria using a root extract, commonly known as Chang Shan, from a type of hydrangea（绣球花） that grows in Tibet and Nepal. More recent studies suggest that halofuginone（卤夫酮） , a...

11-10-13 A central element of the immune system has remained constant through more than 400 million years of evolution, according to new research at National Jewish Health. In the September 29, 2011, online version of the journal Immunity, the researchers re...

11-09-29 As anyone familiar with the phrase 'man-flu' will know women consider themselves to be the more robust side of the species when it comes to health and illness. Now new research, published in BioEssays, seems to support the idea. The research focuses...

11-09-09 We know that in keeping the body physically healthy, the mind both conscious and unconscious is a principle actor. Indeed, research has shown that the biological, or physiological, immune system that fights pathogens（病原体） once they've entered t...

11-09-08 Researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have discovered why the immune cells of people with rheumatoid arthritis（风湿性关节炎） become hyperactive and attack the joints and bones. The immune cells have lost their bouncer,...

11-03-07 Scientists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have identified the key immune cell population responsible for regulating the body's immune response. The finding could have wide-ranging repercussions（反响，影响） for the treatment of autoimmune...

10-12-23 A class of drugs thought to kill cancer cells may in fact block cross talk between the cancer cell and normal immune cells, resulting in reduced cancer growth and spreada discovery that could significantly alter the way cancer drugs are evaluated in...