Type 1 diabetes (T1D) impacts nearly two million Americans, and by the time most people learn they have it, most of the ...

A distinct type of immune cells was found in pancreas of type 1 diabetic people; the discovery offers target for early ...

Israel Institute of Technology Faculty of Biology have identified a unique mechanism involved in the aging of the immune ...

Scientists at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have determined how the body responds during times of emergency when it needs more blood cells. In a study ...

Spleen is the biggest lymphatic organ in the body and its major roles are to create blood (hematopoiesis), to store blood, to filter the blood and to generate immunological responses. The spleen’s ...

The spleen’s job is to filter our blood. When people are critically ill or have received traumatic injuries, however, the spleen alone is sometimes not able to remove enough of the pathogens on its ...

Researchers have discovered an unexpected reservoir of monocytes in the spleen and found that these cells are essential to recovery of cardiac tissue in an animal heart attack model. It takes a spleen ...

ALTHOUGH thrombosis of the splenic vein is infrequently reported in the literature, 1,2 it is common knowledge among surgeons that this condition may follow splenectomy. In fact, local thrombosis at ...

Memory T cells are a special type of white blood cell that "remember" past infections and vaccines, helping our bodies to ...