When people viewed virtual avatars with coughs or rashes, their brains triggered an immune response. The brain activates ...

Seeing sick-looking faces in virtual reality triggers brain circuit changes related to threat detection and boosts activity of certain immune cells.

Both adaptive and innate immune memory responses have been described in gamma delta T cells, yet the mechanisms, the ligands and the gamma delta T cell subsets generating memory responses have remain ...

A virtual reality study showed that the brain can detect potential infectious threats and prime the immune system, offering ...

The immune system works to maintain homeostasis throughout the body. Various cell types and immune mechanisms work in concert to fight disease. Specifically, two waves of immunity orchestrate a robust ...

A virus that typically infects black-eyed peas is showing great promise as a low-cost, potent cancer immunotherapy—and ...

However, the innate immune system triggers a second immune response, which specifically targets infected cells. The adaptive immune response works in concert with the innate immune system to deliver ...

Innate immunity’s role in rejection Current immunosuppressive therapies primarily target T cells, the drivers of the adaptive immune response that recognizes and attacks transplanted organs.

As a postdoctoral fellow, Martinez-Gonzalez investigated the memory potential of another innate immune cell, type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s), which are activated by interleukin (IL)-33 and play ...

Ledvina and Whiteley highlight four such types of signaling pathways of the innate immune system that are conserved between bacteria and either humans or humans and plants: cGAS-STING, NACHT and STAND ...

Researchers monitored brain activity when people were shown images of sick-looking avatars via VR. The brain appeared to ...