A team has identified a previously unknown phase of the immune response. The results challenge long-standing assumptions about the process called 'T-cell priming'. These new insights have significant ...

Bacteria in the human gut can directly deliver proteins into human cells, actively shaping immune responses. A consortium led ...

Dealing with an infection isn't as straightforward as simply killing the pathogen. The body also needs to carefully steer and ...

"These findings suggest that consciously generated positive expectations can engage reward circuitry to influence immune ...

Results of a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute-initiated phase 1 clinical trial for patients with melanoma show that an updated formula and delivery of the NeoVax personalized cancer vaccine called NeoVax ...

Researchers unveil a groundbreaking DNA vaccine that supercharges immunity and boosts survival in patients with aggressive breast cancer—could this be the future of personalized cancer treatment?

Similar to humans, plants have an immune system to help defend against parasites and other deleterious infections. The human body is interconnected with cell-to-cell communication to orchestrate an ...

The immune system's reaction to the common Epstein-Barr virus can ultimately damage the brain and contribute to multiple ...

Three days post viral infection CD8 T cells (red) re-arrest with antigen presenting cells (cyan), where they are supplied with IL-2 by CD4 T cells (yellow), which migrate in a stop and go pattern. The ...