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

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 ...

Thousands of bacterial and other microbial species live in the human gut, supporting healthy digestion, immunity, metabolism ...

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

Daylight can boost the immune system's ability to fight infections. The immune system is regulated by a body clock and is more active during the day, scientists at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University ...

Thousands of bacterial and other microbial species live in the human gut, supporting healthy digestion, immunity, metabolism ...

Sneaky parasite evades the human immune system by stripping cells and wearing them as a disguise Parasites are known to infect human cells through a variety of ingenious mechanisms. Many of them ...

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have been investigating the possibility that Alzheimer’s is caused, at least in part, by the immune system’s wayward attempts to fix DNA ...

Mayo Clinic's Molecular Neurotherapeutics Lab demonstrated that maternal immune insults perturb microglial phenotypes and ...

Social jet lag associated with irregular sleep patterns and inconsistent exposure to daylight is increasingly common, and has been linked with a weakened immune system. Disruption of our circadian ...