This paper to be published in Science reveals a surprising new role for immune cells in regulating blood sugar. Key Findings: ...

While the central immune system protects the brain from infection and disease, the peripheral immune system monitors and responds to threats to the rest of the body. Traditionally thought to ...

The left image shows the immune organ-on-chip, where the organoids (right) are grown to study the response of human donors. The right image shows development of types of immune cells relevant to ...

(He used chickens for his research subjects.) Medawar's work showed that the body's rejection of foreign tissue was indeed an immune response. He and another researcher received the 1960 Nobel ...

"For example," he notes, "some immune cells regulate how the body absorbs fat from food, and we've recently shown that brain-immune interactions help control fat metabolism and obesity. This got ...