Of the 3.6 million babies born in the United States each year, around 80 percent begin breastfeeding in their first month of ...

A Salk Institute study has uncovered that immune cells called T cells migrate from the gut to mammary glands during lactation ...

The gut is home to trillions of microbes, which can have a wide range of impacts on human health in various ways. These ...

If it has seemed like more people you know are developing diabetes, you are right. The diabetes epidemic is not called that ...

Scientists have discovered that flossing between your teeth could one day help vaccinate you. By targeting a uniquely ...

Dr. Carpenter is researching how T cells respond to tuberculosis in the hopes of preventing active TB disease.

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore ...

Getting old is many things: a gift, a bummer, a weird metamorphosis. It's also mysterious. The mechanistic nitty gritty of ...

Life doesn’t always need sunlight. In fact, in some of the coldest, darkest places in the solar system, the spark for life might come from something far more extreme: cosmic rays. A new study led by ...

Several studies have now demonstrated that trained immunity occurs in the airways to several pathogens and products, while its utility is yet to be determined.

Researchers have demonstrated a novel vaccine delivery method in an animal model, using dental floss to introduce the vaccine ...