The innate immune response constitutes the body’s first line of defence against pathogens, utilising a network of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) and signalling molecules to detect and neutralise ...

Sepsis, a complex syndrome driven by a dysregulated host response to infection, is closely linked to both metabolic and ...

Natural antibodies (NAbs) represent a fundamental component of the avian innate immune system, present even in the absence of previous antigen exposure. In poultry, these antibodies, typically ...

A team has identified a previously unknown phase of the immune response. The results challenge long-standing assumptions about the process called 'T-cell priming'. These new insights have significant ...

Researchers have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that regulates the immune response against parasites. During a parasitic infection, specific immune cells, known as virtual memory T cells ...

Plants mobilize their immune defenses far earlier than scientists have believed for decades—and through a previously ...

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 ...

Pain sensing neurons in the gut kindle inflammatory immune responses that cause allergies and asthma, according to a new ...