When thinking of the immune system, most people imagine white blood cells putting up a fight against invading germs in the ...

A consistent biological barrier that stops the immune system from making the antibodies most needed to protect the nose and ...

Gabriel D. Victora's team has turned germinal centers into a living laboratory for one of biology's oldest questions: how ...

When viruses invade a plant, you might expect an all-out immune war. But new research published in Science shows that, much like in humans, too strong an immune response can actually do more harm than ...

Trillions of microorganisms live in the human gut, collectively forming the gut microbiome. They support important bodily ...

Researchers have found surprising links that show that Neanderthal ancestry influences our immune system today in ways more nuanced than previously recognized. Their work is published in the journal ...

People who commonly experience everyday discrimination are more likely to have higher levels of “exhausted” white blood cells, suggesting that the chronic stress of discrimination may hamper the ...

Immune checkpoint inhibitors, adoptive cell therapies, and cancer vaccines have reshaped oncology, yet response remains highly heterogeneous and difficult ...

Plants are continuously exposed to a myriad of microbial pathogens and herbivores, and have evolved multilayered defence strategies. The first layer, pattern‐triggered immunity (PTI), is activated ...

Herd immunity occurs when enough people in a group are immune to a specific infection that it cannot spread easily from person to person. Vaccination programs have been successful in creating herd ...