Most people exposed to the parasites behind babesiosis don't get sick, but for others, the infection can be deadly.

One avenue for new vaccine development is mucosal vaccines. In theory, dosing the vaccine directly into the respiratory tract ...

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems ...

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems ...

Since being discovered in the 1950s ... This gave them a better understanding of how the virus infected cells and caused disease. It helped pave the way for the development of the polio vaccine ...

Comedian Katherine Ryan revealed she has the deadliest form of skin cancer today, after being told by doctors twice that she ...

The next frontier of stem cell transplantation might involve the ... When people’s corneas are scarred by serious injury or infection, doctors can usually treat it by transplanting healthy ...

A revolutionary dressing that aims to repair the cells of people with an extremely painful skin condition and prevent ...

A medical epidemiologist explains who should consider getting a booster and whether you might need to check your antibody ...

Apical periodontitis, a chronic and hard-to-treat dental infection, affects more than ... since they exhibit novel therapeutic effects while being low-cost and shelf stable." ...

Most will only ever have a latent form of the infection, in which infection-fighting white blood cells envelop the bacteria ... patients dying within weeks of being infected instead of years.

Clare Bryant, Professor of Innate Immunity, is a molecular detective. She looks at how bodies defend themselves and tries to ...