(Juan Gartner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) The human immune system has evolved an incredible ability to fight off ...

There is a constant war going on in your body. Working against you are viruses and cancer cells growing uncontrollably, threatening your tissues and organs. Fighting on your side are immune cells such ...

Chronic myeloid leukemia may seem to appear suddenly, but new research shows it begins years before diagnosis with an explosive surge of growth. Scientists tracked how a single genetic accident—the ...

An important element in getting blood stem cells to multiply outside the body is to understand which of the approximately 20,000 genes in the human body control their growth. Now a research team at ...