Scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that a type of white blood cell - called a regulatory T cell - exists as a single large...
Adrian Liston, Professor of Pathology at the University of Cambridge, talks about our extraordinary immune system ahead of his event, Diversity in...
Cambridge researchers have discovered how T cells – an important component of our immune system – are able to keep on killing as they hunt down and...
The University of Cambridge and Royal Papworth Hospital have secured £1.5million of funding as part of the national effort by UK immunologists to...
People with heart disease are more likely to suffer from depression, and the opposite is also true. Now, scientists at the University of Cambridge...
Researchers at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford have discovered a new molecule that plays a key role in the immune response...
An international team of researchers has demonstrated a way of overcoming one of the major stumbling blocks that has prevented the development of a...
Leprosy hijacks our immune system, turning an important repair mechanism into one that causes potentially irreparable damage to our nerve cells...
Our immune systems are meant to keep us healthy, but sometimes they turn their fire on us, with devastating results. Immunotherapies can help defend...
Anti-inflammatory drugs similar to those used to treat conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis could in future be used to treat some...
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have taken the first step towards developing a new form of treatment for type 1 diabetes which, if...
Smoking increases an individual’s risk of developing tuberculosis (TB) – and makes the infection worse – because it causes vital immune cells to...
