Scientists with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have created an engineered model of the supportive tissue ...

Prior COVID-19 vaccination did not stop the immune system from mounting a protective response to the delta and omicron strains, though new mutation-specific antibody production dipped slightly ...

Trillions of microbes live in the human gastrointestinal tract, where they play critical roles in our health and biology; they can help us break down food, absorb nutrients; and they affect the immune ...

Astrocytes are abundant cells of the central immune system that regulate inflammation in multiple diseases. In this study, the researchers examined how their role in the immune response could ...

Getty Images Living in close contact with animals may help to train the immune system by exposing it to a wide variety of microbes (Credit: Getty Images) When the researchers scanned dust samples ...

A breakdown of how memory B, T, and innate cells remember past infections and how this insight powers vaccines and immunotherapies.

"So, in addition to physically destroying tumor cells, histotripsy stimulates the patient's own immune system to fight cancer more effectively throughout the body." Understanding that histotripsy ...

The well-studied NF-κB signaling system is a key mediator of the inflammatory response. Large-scale sequencing studies in ...

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In addition, stress decreases lymphocytes, white blood cells that are part of the immune system, putting you at risk for viral infections like the common cold. “When the fight or flight response ...