Not only do mitochondria serve as the engine of the cell – they also act as watchtowers for the immune system.

The method could help predict whether immunotherapies will work in a patient or how a tumor will respond to drug treatment.

New research on a cytokine called IL-17 adds to growing evidence that immune molecules can influence behavior during illness.

Vaccinations alone may not be enough to protect people with compromised immune systems from infection, even if the vaccine has generated the production of

The virus that causes eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, has evolved to infect mosquitoes. To be able to spread between people, however, it faces extra challenges.

When his son received a devastating diagnosis, Fernando Goldsztein MBA ’03 founded an initiative to help him and others.

The nanoparticle-based vaccine shows promise against many variants of SARS-CoV-2, as well as related sarbecoviruses that could jump to humans.

By examining antigen architectures, MIT researchers built a therapeutic cancer vaccine that may improve tumor response to immune checkpoint blockade treatments.

MIT researchers find that the first dose primes the immune system, helping it to generate a strong response to the second dose, a week later.

MIT scientists’ discovery yields a potent immune response, could be used to develop a potential tumor vaccine.