Neutrophils, basophils and eosinophils are types of granulocytes. Neutrophils are considered the first responders of the innate immune system. Neutrophils and macrophages circulate though the ...

Granulocytes are a family of white blood cells that include neutrophils, eosinophils and basophils. They are part of the so-called innate immune system, which is the body's first line of defense ...

A research team at the University of Münster has investigated for the first time how the confrontation of bacteria with hosts ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trained immunity is a form of innate immune cell memory that is being developed as a novel immunotherapeutic approach for cancer treatment.

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 ...

This response is general and nonspecific. If pathogens manage to bypass the innate immune system, macrophages will attack them. Macrophages will also produce substances called cytokines ...