A combination blood stem cell and pancreatic islet cell transplant from an immunologically mismatched donor completely prevented or cured Type 1 diabetes in mice in a study by Stanford Medicine ...

Work on peacemakers in the immune system won the 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. The peacemakers are regulatory T cells, a type of immune cell that calms the immune system after it has ...

Immune system cells can be engineered outside of the body in a type of therapy called CAR-T. Now, Johns Hopkins scientists are developing ways to sidestep such cell manufacturing with a biodegradable ...

Scientific breakthroughs in one disease don't always shed light on treating other diseases. But that's been the surprising journey of one Mayo Clinic research team. After identifying a sugar molecule ...

Also known as juvenile-onset or insulin-dependent diabetes, this type of diabetes is not related to lifestyle and may occur ...

One challenge of using cell therapy to treat type 1 diabetes is that this approach requires chronic suppression of the immune system to prevent rejection of donor cells. A Vertex Pharmaceuticals ...

For decades, differences in pain between men and women have often been attributed to psychological, emotional or social ...

A monoclonal antibody created by the Nanobiotechnology for Diagnostics group (Nb4D) at the Institute of Advanced Chemistry of ...

Immunotherapy, which uses programmed immune cells to selectively destroy cancer cells, has transformed cancer treatment. However, cancer cells have developed immune evasion strategies, leading to poor ...

The immune system in the uterus can regenerate after both uterus transplantation and bone marrow transplantation. This is ...