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

A new study shows how person-to-person variation in antibody immunity plays a key role in shaping which influenza (flu) strains dominate in a population.

Immune cells play fundamental roles in the development, progression, and resolution of both chronic inflammatory diseases and various cancer types. In ...

Innate immunity comprises intricate cellular and tissue responses critical for host defense and tissue homeostasis. Intercellular communication is central to these responses and significantly ...

The innate immune system is also responsible for the initial activation of the body’s specific immune response (adaptive immunity). Innate immunity was studied and further developed in parallel with ...

These OMVs can be taken up by the host's immune system and used to boost immune readiness. The researchers found that OMVs enhance interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) signaling and increase the amount of ...

The immune system can work in two ways: the innate immune system reacts to any foreign invaders that are identified by immune cells that look for such pathogens; but the acquired or adaptive immune ...

Furthermore, mechanisms of both innate and adaptive ... and maladaptive immune mechanisms over the cerebrovascular disease continuum. CHIP indicates clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential; ...

Crews’ lab, in collaboration with researchers at UC Irvine, has found that decreased function of an enzyme called ELOVL2 (short for “elongation of very long chain fatty acids-like 2”) speeds up immune ...

The body’s innate immune system senses damage signals, like heat shock proteins (HSP70), and sounds the alarm, mobilizing dendritic cells to fan the flames of inflammation. Antigen-presenting ...

The researchers found that longer-lived species had a greater number of genes belonging to the gene families connected to the immune system, suggesting this as a major mechanism driving the ...