Innate lymphoid cells, which curiously behave like T cells even though they don’t recognize specific antigens, show promise as a potential cancer therapeutic.

As an assistant professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at UC San Francisco, Balyn Zaro, PhD, is drawn to genetic differences in the innate immune system. After all, those differences can impact the ...

Your immune system includes your body's cells, tissues, and organs, which work together to fight off infections and diseases. But how much do you know about it? When you understand everything that ...

The immune system comprises two immunity strategies: the innate and the acquired (adaptive) immune system. The innate immune system provides general protection from pathogens and must react quickly.

A discovery could offer new methods for treating HIV, while uncovering the innate immune system's role in other diseases. Human immunodeficiency virus 1, more commonly known as HIV-1, is known for ...

The innate immune system acts as our body's first line of defense. A previously diagnosed phenomenon called trained immunity refers to the memory function within the innate immune system.

In a paper published on August 18 in the journal Cell, scientists report that innate immune cells—a critical part of the immune system activated to battle COVID-19—remain altered for at least ...

NK cells are lymphocytes of the innate immune system. Their name says it all—they eliminate virus-infected cells or tumors. Therefore, they have been extensively studied in the field of tumor ...

By reviewing the research on this subject, two University of Colorado Boulder scientists have demonstrated that this is not the case with respect to elements of the innate immune system that come from ...

In a pair of recent papers, scientists in the lab of molecular biologist John Petrini, Ph.D., showed that innate immune signaling plays a key role in maintaining genome stability during DNA ...

Scientists at Scripps Research and collaborators have now uncovered how our innate immune system – the body's first line of quick defense in attacking foreign invaders – detects HIV-1 ...

A second, the innate system, is composed of cells including phagocytes, whose basic job is to eat the invaders. In addition to these immune cells, many chemical compounds respond to infection and ...