Working with an international team of collaborators, scientists at Columbia University have found a way to shift the balance ...

MIT and Harvard scientists have designed an advanced type of immune cell called a CAR-NK cell that can destroy cancer while ...

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the cells that produce insulin—a ...

The discovery of cells that prevent the immune system from hurting the body is paving the way for new treatments for ...

Borrowing a cancer cell’s disguise, scientists shielded insulin-producing cells from attack by the immune system, a breakthrough that could pave the way for targeted type 1 diabetes treatments without ...

Nobel laureate Shimon Sakaguchi reflects on the role of regulatory T cells in peripheral immune tolerance and how the cells ...

The nanoparticle vaccine allowed the mice’s immune system to produce T cells, white blood cells crucial for fighting ...

People with Type 1 diabetes lose insulin-producing beta cells due to an autoimmune reaction, forcing lifelong dependence on ...

People with type 1 diabetes must constantly rely on insulin injections or pumps, usually for the rest of their life after diagnosis. The autoimmune disease destroys the cells that produce the hormone, ...

On one wall of endocrinologist Kevan Herold’s office hangs artwork by a girl who joined one of his type 1 diabetes trials when she was 11 years old. The girl was diagnosed with stage 2 of the disease, ...