Supercharging immune cells that eat dead cells could help prevent heart failure after a heart attack, research with mice shows.

A new theory about Neanderthal extinction points to disease transmission as the culprit—both for their end, and for why it came about so slowly.

The discovery of a critical protein could unlock new therapies to treat or even prevent West Nile and Zika viruses, researchers say.

A protein called IL-36g could keep the herpes virus from spreading to the nervous system in women, researchers have discovered.

Tuberculosis infection is "rarely life-long and in 90% or more of infected people, there is no possibility of TB development..."

A new antiviral drug could offer a groundbreaking advance in fighting influenza.

"...the signals in our brain that modulate the sleep and awake state also act as a switch that turns the immune system off and on."

Exploiting a feature of the immune system could open the door for stem cell transplants to repair the brain without the need for lifelong medication.

New research on toxin exposure finds weakened immune response as far out as the rodent equivalent of great-grandchildren.

A new discovery sheds light on a kind of bacterial "immune system" that defends microbes from attack and could be key to fighting disease in the future.