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Mr Andrews contacted the medical team at Massachusetts General Hospital ( MGH) that had carried out the operation. On January ...

In 1818, the idea of extending life by borrowing body parts was a cutting-edge fictional prospect, but now it’s a daily ...

Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, attacking harmful invaders while protecting your own tissues ...

The answer came in 2023, thanks in part to the family of a patient who had a complete loss of brain function. After learning ...

For many conditions including immune-related ones, genetics often explains only a small fraction of the differences between ...

Dr. Leondo Ferreira of the Medical University of South Carolina takes patient samples obtained from University Hospital La Paz in Madrid, Spain from a liquid nitrogen tank. A Medical University of ...

One shot in the arm, and the whole body is protected. But how? For one thing, the immune system produces antibodies and cells that patrol the entire organism by traveling through the bloodstream. For ...

Inflammation has long been portrayed as something inherently bad; a process that needs to be fought or suppressed. In popular ...

Go back to the basics. Gentle cleansing, daily sunscreen, and consistent moisturizing. “Anything that helps your skin barrier ...

Modifying the organ instead of the recipient isn’t a new idea, but it is an important one, said Jeffrey Platt, a transplantation biologist at the University of Michigan Medical School who was not ...

Pregnancy and breastfeeding reprogram the immune system, leaving lasting T cells that protect the breast from cancer for ...