...cord, is not uncommon. But it is usually caused by bacteria, and it is very unusual to see it in patients with normal immune systems, Jernigan said. This strain is caused by a fungus that is common in dirt and grasses ? people routinely come...

...people with a compromised immune system, but workers in the UGA lab have undergone tests to make sure they have normal immune systems, Allen said.A scientist used the wrong kind of container for the bacterium in a machine, Allen said.The researcher...

...HIV-infected blood donor and six people infected by his blood had remained healthy for more than a decade and had normal immune systems. The man's virus lacked a functioning nef gene. Bryan Cullen, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator...

...plasmacytoid dendritic cells. To test their theory, they injected a small amount of those cells into mice with normal immune systems, then studied their killer T cells. "They went from nice response to nada," Dr. Munn said. But by giving...

...plasmacytoid dendritic cells. To test their theory, they injected a small amount of those cells into mice with normal immune systems, then studied their killer T cells. "They went from nice response to nada," Dr. Munn said. But by giving...

WASHINGTON -- In an exciting and long-awaited success, gene therapy has restored apparently normal immune systems to two French babies born with a rare, lethal immune disease sometimes called the "bubble boy disease." It's too soon to...