Animal studies and a few small clinical trials show it’s possible to get commensal microbes to protect against bone loss, rather than contribute to it.

A study in patients identifies a nontraditional immune pathway that can cause a severe reaction to anesthetic drugs.

Research in mice and humans is beginning to establish a link between the composition of microbes in the gut and immune responses to tumor cells, but the mechanisms are not yet clear.

University of Michigan’s Ada Hagan separates fact from fiction, such as whether you should starve a fever or if eating chocolate really causes acne.

Introducing either necroptotic cells or an enzyme that triggers necroptosis can wipe out cancer.

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

Those with two copies of the Δ32 allele in the CCR5 gene are 21 percent more likely to die by age 76, although it’s not clear why.

An experiment delves into how the microbiome shapes immunity.

Lymph from cattle proved more effective at inducing immunity to smallpox than the older, person-to-person method.