Innate lymphoid cells, which curiously behave like T cells even though they don’t recognize specific antigens, show promise as a potential cancer therapeutic. In the years that followed, other groups ...

It starts with a sneeze. Someone on the subway didn't cover their mouth and now a cloud of invisible invaders hangs in the ...

Alzheimer’s disease affects over 55 million people worldwide and has long been linked to toxic protein buildup and chronic ...

A key aspect of your immune system is to distinguish “self” from “nonself ” so it can destroy and remove foreign materials ...

Cancer immunotherapy, which primes the body's immune system to fight off tumors, has historically focused on harnessing T ...

Some of our biggest threats can come in the tiniest forms—viruses and bacteria. Thankfully, we are born with a built-in ...

STF-1623, a new drug candidate, boosts innate immunity by blocking ENPP1, helping the body fight solid tumors once resistant to immunotherapy.

The immune system can work in two ways: the innate immune system reacts to any foreign invaders that are identified by immune cells that look for such pathogens; but the acquired or adaptive immune ...

Cancer immunotherapies, including cancer vaccines, harness and amplify the immune system’s natural ability to detect and attack cancer cells. In this illustration, immune T cells (pink) attach to a ...

Researchers from Penn’s School of Dental Medicine found that training innate immune system may lead to increased bone loss in inflammatory conditions. Credit: Chenyao Liu Researchers from Penn’s ...

Prior dengue infection reshapes innate immunity, boosting vaccine efficacy. Vaccination alone fails to replicate these immune ...

New research has revealed a common process that powers the destruction of cells infected with pathogens, which could lead to ...