Max Cooper and Brantley Herrin discuss the evolution of innate and alternative adaptive immune systems for defence purposes and conclude that successful vaccines and other therapeutic ...

Researchers at WashU Medicine found that a small population of immune cells in the mouse intestine prevents allergic ...

In the absence of such cells, mice experienced ... prevent or treat food allergies." The immune system encounters common food allergens -- peanuts, tree nuts, milk, eggs and shellfish, among ...

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Study findings provide a new gene pathway for potential treatment of the virus affecting millions. Mount Sinai researchers have developed a method to uncover the hidden immune cells that harbor ...

Early clinical results suggest the firm's antibodies targeting the Vβ T-cell receptor could induce strong and durable responses in cancer patients.

Neutrophils are an important type of circulating immune cell. The specialized neutrophils described in the new study populate the skin, where they produce collagen and other matrix proteins that ...

The immune system responds to an infection by producing antibodies that recognize and bind to the cell surface of the pathogen, thus marking it as an intruder and triggering an immune response.