At the surface, the immune response to a flu virus is simple. Some cells recognize the pathogen and send a signal to the ...

Results of a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute-initiated phase 1 clinical trial for patients with melanoma show that an updated ...

When fighting disease, our immune cells need to reach their target quickly. ... Enhancing the immune response. The discoveries are a step in a new direction for how cells move inside our bodies.

The adaptive immune response is more specific and provides effective cells that eliminate infections. Innate immune cells present signals on their surface, which adaptive immune cells recognize and ...

Autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), affect ...

An engineered protein turns off the kind of immune cells most likely to damage tissue as part of type-1 diabetes, hepatitis, ...

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They wanted to take advantage of these suppressor cells’ power to temper immune responses, such as runaway inflammation. Unfortunately, suppressor cells can’t always stop a dangerous immune response.

Aside from serving as HIV targets and hideouts, T cells are an important part of the body's immune response against many viruses. They are also the cell type that is most evidently depleted in ...

Previously, Wang and colleagues showed that some T cells release TFF2 to tone down inflammatory responses, and that giving mice TFF2 can boost the immune system and slow tumor growth.

Scientists have created a new atlas of plant cells during immune response, in turn discovering a new rare cell state, called Primary IMmunE Responder (PRIMER), that acts as an immune response hub ...

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 ...