These receptors allow T cells to sense and respond to diverse types of infection. A healthy immune system is tolerant to self-antigens while maintaining responsiveness to foreign threats.

New types of T cells seem to pop up in the scientific literature with increasing frequency. Just this June, for instance, University of Melbourne immunologist Angela Pizzolla and her colleagues ...

and CD8-positive suppressor T cells, which restrain certain types of immune response. Interferon-α (IFN-α) is linked to type 1 diabetes (T1D), but how IFN-α impacts auto-antigen presentation is ...

A research team from Columbia Engineering and the Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics made a pivotal discovery in the field ...

Researchers identify a pathogenic subset of CD8+ memory T-cells that promote airway tissue inflammation and recurrent ...

Immunity infection organism, adaptation microscopic Immune system cell types. Cartoon macrophage, dendritic, monocyte, mast, b and t cells. Adaptive and innate immunity, lymphocyte vector set Immune ...

The VMMC and Safdarjung Hospital has successfully performed its first-ever Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy ...

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have discovered a three-drug combination that enhances the generation ...