More than three decades ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) as the first ...

Learn about acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), its sneaky symptoms, aggressive nature, and how bone marrow produces defective ...

A decades-old TB vaccine turned cancer therapy may unlock new immunotherapies by reprogramming immune cell development in the ...

The immune system is an organization ... anergic as they mature within the bone marrow. Negative selection occurs in the bone marrow if B cells encounter high levels of self antigen, either ...

The study, which involved putting elderly mice on exercise wheels and evaluating their bone density and composition among other tests, revealed a specialized area in bone marrow that generates the ...

bone marrow is given by a "half-matched" donor, such as a parent, sibling, child, niece, nephew, aunt, uncle or cousin of the ...

Doctors completely eliminate the patient’s immune system by aiming chemotherapy, radiation or both at their bone marrow before replacing ... We also found that high MAIT cell numbers were ...

Share on Pinterest An animal study suggests fasting may negatively affect the immune system. Sergio Delle Vedove/EyeEm/Getty Images Fasting ... blood to their bone marrow during fasting and ...

Previous studies have shown that inflammation contributes to the development of high blood pressure. This involves the accumulation of activated immune cells in the bone marrow that secrete pro ...

This is because they can cause a drop in the number of white blood cells made in the bone marrow. Cancer treatments that are more likely to weaken the immune system are: chemotherapy targeted cancer ...