The author of the study said the body's "memory" could still leave people who have lost weight at risk of health issues ...

A new EMBO Reports study suggests that obesity can leave a lasting epigenetic imprint on CD4 T cells, delaying the ...

The average human has about 1.8 trillion immune cells. These cells patrol the body for bacteria, viruses, cancers, and other threats. Vaccines enhance this security system by teaching our immune cells ...

Illustration of human lymphocytes. (Ruslanas Baranauskas/Science Photo Library) Defeating obesity is rarely easy. For many ...

The average human has about 1.8 trillion immune cells. These cells patrol the body for bacteria, viruses, cancers, and other threats. Vaccines enhance this security system by teaching our immune cells ...

Measles can erase the immune system's memory, leaving us vulnerable to diseases we were previously protected against, new research has found. Two separate studies, published Thursday in the journals ...

People who live with obesity are "tagging" a memory of being overweight on a key part of the immune system—leaving people ...

A unique quality of the immune system is that it can generate a ‘memory’ response. This is generally referred to as ‘immune memory’ because of the body’s ability to remember previously encountered ...

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have discovered that PD-1—a molecule best known for putting the brakes on immune cells—also plays a critical role in helping T cells become long-term immune ...

Conventional wisdom has held for some time that children who grow up in environments rich with biodiversity — farms, homes with pets, rural settings in general — are less likely to have allergies. The ...

People with hard-to-treat asthma often have to use medicines such as systemic steroids that broadly suppress the immune ...