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Opera and classical music can relax you – and maybe your immune system, if results with mice extend to us. Because mice that got heart transplants and who listened to opera and classical music had better outcomes than those exposed to other sounds. The work is in the Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery.

By Helen Thompson of Nature magazine Exposure to germs in childhood is thought to help strengthen the immune system and protect children from developing allergies and asthma , but the pathways by which this occurs have been unclear. [More]

Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease--the immune system mistakenly attacks its own body, causing red, itchy, scaly patches on the skin. But there may be a hidden upside.

A while ago, I wrote about how Helicobacter pylori , the bacteria that cause stomach ulcers and are implicated in certain stomach cancers, cause the cells of the stomach wall to die . H.

More than 100 years ago Ivan Pavlov famously observed that a dog salivated not only when fed but also on hearing a stimulus it associated with food. Since then, scientists have discovered many other seemingly autonomous processes that can be trained with sensory stimuli--including, most recently, our immune system. [More]

Peering through a microscope at a plate of cells one day, Ralph M.

Scientists are learning to engineer the immune system to attack cancer cells, breakthroughs that could lead to cancer vaccines

An American is among the three winners of Nobel Price in medicine for their work on understanding the immune system.

Scientists up number of identified MS genes to 57, link them to other immune diseases like Chron's, Type 1 diabetes

Asthma rates have been surging around the globe over the past three decades, and for a long time researchers thought they had a good idea of what might be fueling the increase: the world we live in is just a little too clean. According to this notion--known as the hygiene hypothesis--exposure in early childhood to infectious agents programs the immune system to mount differing highly effective defenses against disease-causing viruses, bacteria and parasites.