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Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified the cellular mechanisms that cause immune cells to differentiate and ultimately lose function during viral infection, findings that could improve ...

SLAMF6 is an immune cell receptor whose function was not clear. Does it activate or inhibit cells? The results so far have been contradictory. Now, scientists at the Institut de Recherches Cliniques ...

A collaborative study published in Immunity from the Batista Lab and Liu Lab at the Ragon Institute, together with the Schief ...

Why does the same virus barely faze one person while sending another to the hospital? New research shows the answer lies in a molecular record etched into our immune cells by both our genes and our ...

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biology and Biomedicine has gone in this eighteenth edition to Carl June ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way tumors turn the immune system to their advantage. Researchers at the University of ...

We are now approaching six years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, yet talk of ...

Innate immunity is a foundational field in immunology, critical for understanding how organisms sense and respond to danger, be it pathogens or sterile ...

An Indian review reveals how macrophages are reprogrammed inside breast tumours, helping cancer grow and spread while opening new treatment pathways.

Because many different types of cancer cells overexpress programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1), this cell surface protein is a ...

Probiotics are beneficial bacteria found in yogurt, curd and fermented products that help strengthen gut barrier and reduce the severity of respiratory infections.