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

However, adaptive immune cells—so-named because they can recognize, respond to, and remember specific microbes—require four to seven days to mount a tailor-made defensive. 1 Meanwhile, innate immune ...

Along with defending against pathogens, the body's innate immune system helps to protect the stability of our genomes in unexpected ways—ways that have important implications for the development ...

However, recent research has challenged this belief, showing that the innate immune system can be trained. This emerging principle, known as trained innate immunity, enables the innate immune system ...

Researchers have discovered that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines have a persistent effect on the innate immune system. These mechanisms may help the human body to better protect itself against ...

And importantly, these studies have also shown that "training" the innate immune system has beneficial effects, such as anti-tumor activity and an increased response to fighting infections in ...

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Immunity Unlike the broad attack of the innate defense system, the adaptive immune system attacks pathogens with specific, made-to-order antibodies and cells. The antibodies and lymphocytes of the ...

Along with defending against pathogens, the body's innate immune system helps to protect the stability of our genomes in unexpected ways—ways that have important implications for the development ...