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

Most humans have long-lived infections in various tissues—including in the nervous system—that typically do not result in ...

Researchers show that the immune system can recognize and control the latent stage of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, a finding that can inform the study of latency in other infections of the nervous ...

Our immune systems develop to recognize what is foreign within our bodies. As immune cells are generated in the bone marrow ...

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.

Measles doesn’t just cause illness, but also erases the immune system’s memory, leaving people vulnerable to infections ...

Scientists at CNIC have identified a specialized group of neutrophils in the skin that produce extracellular matrix. This ...

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

Even in the case of uncomplicated infections, the body prepares itself early on for the possibility of a more severe course. A research team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Helmholtz ...

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