Innovation & Discovery Articles
While traditional vaccines teach the immune system to fight off foreign invaders, inverse vaccines teach the immune system to ignore its own cells — and may completely reverse autoimmune disease.
The lingering effects of viral infections are not well-understood, but long COVID is helping shed light on the mysterious phenomenon, particularly in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome.
Discoveries about the types of immunity eventually led to the use of human antibodies to treat disease.
With trillions of viruses living in the human and other species’ microbiomes, the possibility of novel viruses such as COVID-19 emerging is high, but the threat they may pose is unknown.
Optimism continues to grow about the use of stem cells in regenerative medicine highlighted by hundreds of successful clinical trials.
With big data and artificial intelligence, there is great hope for tailor-made medicine, but there are challenges that must be overcome.
Using nutrition to benefit health through the care and feeding of genes, though still in its infancy, is an exciting field of study seeing exponential growth.
Approvals in 2018 brought the total number of U.S. Food and Drug Administration-licensed biosimilars well into the double digits — and more are in the pipeline.
As the number of cancer cases continues to rise, scientists are bringing to light exciting discoveries that are being used to create targeted therapies to treat and, it is hoped, to eventually cure cancer.
