Cohn was a leader in gene regulation and immune system research and left a lasting legacy in La Jolla.

The immunologists, honored with the 2018 award in Physiology or Medicine, pioneered immunotherapy, which harnesses the body’s immune system to fight cancer.

Belly fat helps fight infection, but is also a common site of metastasis.

Hanging in front of the abdomen like an apron, the depot of visceral fat known as the omentum helps regulate immune responses.

Health and Human Services plans to review all research involving human fetal tissue.

Some patients could suppress the virus without antiretroviral therapy for months after the drug infusions.

Nine of the most recent retractions from AACR journals are for papers coauthored by embattled cancer researcher Bharat Aggarwal.

Immune cells travel through these passageways to get to injured tissue quickly, researchers say.

The promise of immunotherapy is real. We now need to figure out how to maximize the number of patients the approach benefits.