Its complex network of cells, organs, proteins, and tissues enables the immune system to defend the body from pathogens. A fully functional immune system can distinguish healthy tissue from ...

Researchers from TUM and Helmholtz Munich discovered that even in mild infections, the body prepares T cells that are ...

Even in the case of uncomplicated infections, the body prepares itself early on for the possibility of a more severe course.

An insidious but lesser-known consequence of even a mild measles infection is that it kills the very cells that remember ...

Researchers at the University of Cologne have found that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines have a lasting impact on the innate ...

We typically think of pathogens as being something from outside the body, like a circulating virus such as the flu or COVID. However, we and others have found that normal cells that begin to turn ...

Immune cells are generated to keep our bodies healthy. To combat disease, our bodies initiate two separate waves of immunity.

I keep hearing about the complications that can happen when you have the measles and how they can land you in the hospital. I ...

"There's this balance of the pathogen needing to take hold in ... cells directly recognize the neurons and to study the T ...

Penn Vet researchers show that the immune system can recognize and control the latent stage of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii ...

Researchers have unveiled a novel immune mechanism by which tandem kinases combat pathogen invasion: an atypical NLR protein, ...