Researchers suggest the viruses can help endosymbiotic bacteria get along with their hosts.

Research has repeatedly suggested that spending time in natural environments improves mental and physical well-being. Now, scientists are gathering the data needed to incorporate this phenomenon in health-care guidelines.

In light of recent reports of electronic-cigarette–related illness and death, UNC Chapel Hill professor Robert Tarran discusses the dangerous effects of e-liquids on the lungs.

Immune functions in the mouse intestine differ by segment.

With her husband, she studied allergic reactions and identified antibodies that set off itching, wheezing, and rashes.

A video captures T cells learning to recognize cells from the body that shouldn’t be attacked.

Immune cells in the mouse gut help recognize damaging compounds and prompt intestinal stem cells to repair DNA.

Researchers find that it’s not just high-risk genes, but how children’s bodies respond to their own intestinal microbiota that relates to future diagnoses of type 1 diabetes.

Children were 38 percent less likely to show signs of Zika infection if they had previously had dengue.