New research from the Snow Center for Immune Health is challenging long-held assumptions about autoimmune disease, revealing ...

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 ...

For the first time, researchers have transplanted gene-edited donor islet cells that secrete insulin in a person with type 1 diabetes (T1D) without the use of immunosuppression. The study subject, a ...

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a lifelong autoimmune disorder where the immune system attacks islets, certain areas of the pancreas ...

A group of researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has recently developed a new stem cell therapy with ...

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, ...

Natural killer cells act as the immune system’s rapid-response team, but the stress of anxiety and insomnia may be quietly thinning their ranks. A study of young women in Saudi Arabia found that both ...

HIV can damage the brain and cause memory and cognitive problems. And once HIV enters the brain, it does not leave. HIV ...

Cell therapy is an advanced biomedical approach that utilizes living cells as therapeutic agents to treat disease or repair tissue. 4 Scientists isolate cells from a patient or a healthy donor and ...

A consistent biological barrier that stops the immune system from making the antibodies most needed to protect the nose and ...