Curing HIV will be harder than curing cancer. Apart from a few 'miracle' cases, antiretrovirals only suppress HIV, they don't kill it. But new research is promising.

Induces potent and long-lasting immune responses to defined antigens or whole pathogens (particles), mainly through the ...

Scientists at Oxford University, which pioneered Covid-19 vaccines, turn attention to ‘detecting the undetectable’ and ...

Maite Rodriguez and her husband gave their 6-year-old daughter with sickle cell disease a lifeline when they conceived a ...

When we get a cold, we get prescribed decongestants to help relieve clogged nose. But that does not kill the virus that caused the infection inside our body. It is our immune system that fights the ...

As we age, our immune systems undergo a gradual decline in function, but there are things we can do now to help keep them ...

Recently, a member* of Reddit posed the question, "What’s the one random genetic trait you lucked out on?" to the good folks of r/AskReddit. Here are their top-voted wild, funny, and, frankly, envious ...