As an assistant professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at UC San Francisco, Balyn Zaro, PhD, is drawn to genetic differences in the innate immune system. After all, those differences can impact the ...

To his physician, University of California at San Francisco virologist Jay Levy, Cody may be living proof of the power of the "innate" immune system, an ancient and inherited arsenal of biological ...

Innate lymphoid cells, which curiously behave like T cells even though they don’t recognize specific antigens, show promise as a potential cancer therapeutic.

Innate immunity, also known as genetic or natural immunity, is immunity that an organism is born with. This type of immunity is written in one’s genes, offering lifelong protection. It is considered ...

How chronic activation of the innate immune system can lead to cancer The newer paper, led by first author Hexiao Wang, Ph.D.

In a paper published on August 18 in the journal Cell, scientists report that innate immune cells—a critical part of the immune system activated to battle COVID-19—remain altered for at least ...

A discovery could offer new methods for treating HIV, while uncovering the innate immune system's role in other diseases. Human immunodeficiency virus 1, more commonly known as HIV-1, is known for ...

The immune system has two main arms: innate and adaptive. The innate immune system recognizes broad molecular patterns, such as molecules that certain RNA viruses generate as they replicate. It is ...

During evolution, the innate immune system appeared before the adaptive immune system, and some form of innate immunity probably exists in all multicellular organisms. By contrast with adaptive ...

By reviewing the research on this subject, two University of Colorado Boulder scientists have demonstrated that this is not the case with respect to elements of the innate immune system that come from ...

NK cells are lymphocytes of the innate immune system. Their name says it all—they eliminate virus-infected cells or tumors. Therefore, they have been extensively studied in the field of tumor ...