What made you want to study the innate immune system? There is plenty of research on the adaptive immune system, which is the system humans develop throughout their life. I was surprised by how little ...

An Innate Defense System / Scientists begin to pay attention to the `other' immune system, long thought to be unimportant, in the fight against AIDS and other diseases By Sabin Russell, Chronicle ...

Along with defending against pathogens, the body's innate immune system helps to protect the stability of our genomes in ...

W hen a pathogen enters the body and begins multiplying, the immune system has to respond with haste. However, adaptive immune cells—so-named because they can recognize, respond to, and remember ...

The innate immune system is the body's first line of defense against pathogens and foreign substances. An essential component ...

I f the COVID-19 pandemic has done one thing, it’s made us all more familiar with some of the important players in the immune system. Antibodies, B cells, and T cells are among the best known ...

Our immune system controls cancer, our immune system is important for wound healing and our immune system also restricts bacterial pathogens.” Ledvina and Whiteley highlight four such types of ...

The findings, which have revealed an innate immune cell type with adaptive features, have been reported in Immunity. NKRM cells seem to be crucial regulators of immunity. In a mouse model of ...

However, recent research has challenged this belief, showing that the innate immune system can be trained. This emerging principle, known as trained innate immunity, enables the innate immune system ...

Immunity. Unlike the broad attack of the innate defense system, the adaptive immune system attacks pathogens with specific, made-to-order antibodies and cells.

Researchers at LMU have elucidated why certain RNA modifications do not trigger an immune response—a key mechanism for RNA therapeutics.