The innate immune response is the body’s first line of defence, utilising specialised protein complexes known as inflammasomes to detect pathogenic insults and cellular damage. These multi‐protein ...

Pioneering research led by Brazilians describes the immune system's reactions in detail in the first living patient to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant.

LMU researchers have deciphered the complex interplay of various enzymes around the innate immune receptor toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7), which plays an important role in defending our bodies against ...

Trained immunity provides a unifying framework linking innate immune memory to both protective and maladaptive inflammation ...

The relationship between inflammation and cancer represents one of the central paradoxes in modern tumor immunology. On one hand, chronic inflammation is a ...

Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder, with no available treatment, that affects roughly one percent of the population. People with celiac disease must maintain a strict gluten-free diet.

Researchers at the University of Cologne and University Hospital Cologne have determined that the novel mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines not only induce acquired immune responses such as antibody ...

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 ...

Innate lymphoid cells, which curiously behave like T cells even though they don’t recognize specific antigens, show promise as a potential cancer therapeutic. In the years that followed, other groups ...

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 ...

Recent findings reveal Cornell prime dots can activate the immune system against melanoma, improving cancer immunotherapy ...