While innate immunity is clearly understood to play a role in fighting infection, its significance in tissue homeostasis is more recently revealed. This can involve, for example, macrophages and ...

A new generation of cancer therapies has emerged over the past few decades, including checkpoint inhibitors and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies that modify or directly use T-cells ...

For decades, dogma dictated that the immune system consisted of two separate branches. Cells of the innate system respond rapidly to molecular patterns shared by a broad array of pathogens. Meanwhile, ...

By studying the innate immune system, scientists have found connections between the ... which removes traits that are no longer useful in order to free up resources (the classic example being fish or ...

In a study published today (October 20) in Science Translational Medicine, researchers show that these cells, the most abundant in circulation, also alert the immune system to the presence of bacteria ...

"Who are you?" This question, in its many variations, is almost inevitable in school applications, job interviews or introspective moments. We spend years, perhaps our entire lives, unraveling the ...

The common and important infectious viruses in pigs and poultry mainly include DNA and RNA viruses, which pose significant threats to both animal and human ...

But innate immune cells ... and prednisolone, for example, belong to this group. But these steroids are known to suppress ...