Umbilical cord blood may be a good alternative to bone marrow transplants for treating HIV in patients with HIV and cancer.

This year’s Breakthrough Prizes honor advances in CAR T cancer therapies, cystic fibrosis, and Parkinson’s disease.

Haydeh Payami helped uncover the genetic basis of Parkinson’s disease. Now, she hopes to find new ways to treat the disease by studying the gut microbiome.

Evidence thus far shows that pregnant people infected with SARS-CoV-2 are at higher risk for severe disease and death, as well as complications in their pregnancies.

We have barely scratched the surface of itch science and what it indicates about our health.

Scientists discovered a possibly autoreactive T cell population that forecasts and supports disease progression.

Gerald Edelman, who broke new ground in two distinct fields of life science, has passed away at age 84.

Clinicians and researchers teamed up to investigate how inappropriate proinflammatory mechanisms contribute to the pathogenesis of drug-refractory epilepsy.

The approach could help test hypotheses about how atypical function of the brain’s immune cells contributes to autism.

In stressful conditions, specialized protein complexes in microglia induce neurotoxic activity in astrocytes that leads to the change in behavior.