Herpesviruses are highly species-specific, having co-evolved with their respective hosts over millennia. This evolutionary relationship has led to the development of highly specialized immune evasion ...

Marginal zone B (MZB) cells play pivotal roles in the innate immune system by linking innate and adaptive immunity through their capacity for antigen presentation and lymphocyte activation 1,2.

Researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) have uncovered a critical link between the immune system in early life and ...

"Peacemaker" immune cells could help treat diseases ranging from type 1 diabetes to neurodegeneration by restoring immune ...

An international team led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden has identified the molecular tools needed to reprogram ordinary cells into specialized immune cells. The discovery, published in ...

Phages, viruses that infect bacteria, could be genetically manipulated to destroy cancerous cells using the immunity we have ...

Immunotherapies – treatments that aim to make the body's natural immune system more effective – are becoming more widely used ...

Researchers from National Taiwan University (NTU) and National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) have identified a promising ...

Natural killer cells act as the immune system’s rapid-response team, but the stress of anxiety and insomnia may be quietly thinning their ranks. A study of young women in Saudi Arabia found that both ...

A study linking accelerated immune-cell aging to emotional, but not physical, depressive symptoms strengthens evidence that ...