MIT engineers have developed a new way to amplify the T-cell response to mRNA vaccines - an advance that could lead to much more powerful cancer vaccines and stronger protection against infectious ...

The classical paradigm in immunology is that the immune system protects self from non-self. However, there are many cases where the immune system needs to tolerate non-self to avoid complications or ...

T cells, which target infection and disease, can become more effective after a meal. The finding might help improve ...

Infection-fighting T cells from people who have eaten recently can proliferate more quickly in response to threats.

In 2006 immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi co-wrote an article in Scientific American that now feels prophetic. In the article, entitled “Peacekeepers of the Immune System,” Sakaguchi and his co-author, ...