"We are particularly interested in these type of immune reactions that are responsible for killing the malaria parasite.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

What happens is your immune response goes haywire and then your body starts to attack itself, so theres a failure to shutdown.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

On his twenty-fourth birthday, doctors told Onalfo he had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

The immune system loses its ability to tell the difference between foreign materials and its own cells.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

The Northwestern University researcher took part in a study that found a way to turn off the immune system in mice with arthritis.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

Newer drugs attempt to suppress only one small part of the immune system, not all of it.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

But Legionella bacteria can cause a form of pneumonia in people with weakened immune systems.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

We also will tell about progress against acquired immune deficiency syndrome, better known as AIDS.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

If the immune system weakens at any point, they begin to spread and then attack.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

They also may use immunotherapy -- getting the body's immune system to fight the cancer.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

She is an expert in the development and genetics of immune deficiency viruses in primates.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

Scientists have believed that S.I.V.did not cause a similar immune system problem for primates.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

Autoimmune diseases affect the immune system C the body's natural defenses for fighting disease.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

Allergies are abnormal reactions of the immune system in response to otherwise harmless substances.

VOA: special.2009.07.28