He began searching for novel parasite-fighting immune cells. McKenzie knew that IL-25 triggers a class of T cells called type-2 helper T cells (Th2s) to proliferate and produce IL-13, and he wondered ...

Redness and pain at the injection site, fever, fatigue or headaches: Vaccines can cause side effects, but their frequency and ...

Macrophages, the sentinel cells of the innate immune system, have long been celebrated for their remarkable ability to engulf ...

Research from Radboud university medical center reveals that T cells from the adaptive immune system can manipulate the memory of innate immune cells. Previously, it was believed that the memory of ...

Researchers have shown that innate immune training, also known as trained immunity (TRIM), leads to aggravated bone loss in experimental models of periodontitis and inflammatory arthritis. Clinical ...

December 4, 2024 – Jérémie Le Pen wants to understand the workings of the “innate immune system”—the part of the human immune system that puts up an immediate defense when it encounters a pathogen.

In 2015, fruit flies were sent to International Space Station to study how microgravity and the space environment affect the ...

SARS-CoV-2 has an enzyme that can counteract a cell's innate defense mechanism against viruses, explaining why it is more infectious than the previous SARS and MERS-causing viruses. The discovery may ...

Scientists generally agree that eukaryotes, the domain of life whose cells contain nuclei and that includes almost all multicellular organisms, originated from a process involving the symbiotic union ...

We sometimes hear about the benefits of “boosting” our immune system, but what we really want to do is support our immune system on an ongoing basis. People often think of the immune system as ...