A new study analyzing the immune response to COVID-19 in a Catalan cohort of health workers sheds light on an important ...

In recent years, the field of immunology has increasingly focused on the role of glycolipids and sphingolipids in the differentiation and function of innate immune cells, such as macrophages, ...

Select the journal/section where you want your idea to be submitted: Early-life microbial colonization represents one of the most critical determinants of human development. Although the neonatal ...

The women in my family are hardy, to put it lightly. They have shaken off countless illnesses and powered through pregnancies. They’ve managed this in spite of questionable lifestyle choices (let’s ...

This study will help to understand why viral pathogenesis differs between children and adults. A new in vitro model of the human respiratory tract epithelium will enable us to study age-dependant ...

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 ...

When Vladimir Putin met with Donald Trump in Alaska in August, one prominent strand of social-media commentary had nothing to do with the possibility of a deal to end Russia’s war against Ukraine (the ...

An investigational Toll-like receptor (TLR) antagonist was effective in reducing biomarkers and clinical symptoms of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in a pilot trial, evidence that the innate ...

Tom Anchordoquy receives funding for this work from the Nationals Institutes of Health through grant # RO1 CA289447. When the first cells appeared on Earth approximately 3.8 billion years ago, viruses ...

Researchers at LMU have elucidated why certain RNA modifications do not trigger an immune response—a key mechanism for RNA therapeutics. The innate immune system is the body's first line of defense ...

Antibodies, which recognize viruses and proteins that the body has encountered before, have long gotten most of the credit for giving the human immune system a memory. Now, researchers at the ...