With so many still unanswered questions, one could ask whether we ... complexity of our integrated innate and adaptive immune systems is the result of powerful and enduring selection, most ...

Induces potent and long-lasting immune responses to defined antigens or whole pathogens (particles), mainly through the ...

Many of the cells in the innate immune system produce cytokines or interact with other cells directly to activate the adaptive immune system. In cancer cells, mutations can lead to expression of tumor ...

Prioritising your immune system is always a good idea, especially when the weather starts to get cold and wet. Your immune ...

Investigations of immune recognition in nonmammalian species provide new insights into the evolution of immunity and the inner workings of the mammalian immune system. Very diverse mechanisms are ...

Your immune system gets a daily workout attacking foreign invaders with specialized white blood cells like T-cells and B-cells. Some days the fight is intense. During cold and flu season there are ...

Neuroscientists have identified that the receptor IL-1R1 plays a critical role in enabling neurons to directly communicate with the immune system. The new study provides the most detailed mapping of ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and the Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital in Sweden have determined how children's immune systems react to different kinds of cancer depending on their age.

Fighting Back instead takes a look at the battlefield where the fight takes place, putting you into the world of the immune system. A mumps virus enters the body, then enters a cell. There it ...

There are marked differences in your immune system after a natural infection with coronavirus and after vaccination. Which is better? Even asking the question bordered on heresy a year ago ...