The innate response's job is to assess the threat and determine how best to handle it. When it has a firm grasp on the situation, and if it can't deal with the threat itself, the innate response ...

We sometimes hear about the benefits of “boosting” our immune system, but what we really want to do is support our immune system on an ongoing basis. People often think of the immune system as ...

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 ...

Unlike transient innate immune activation, trained immunity is characterized by long-lasting but reversible functional reprogramming of monocytes, macrophages, natural killer (NK) cells, and ...

Dr Craige Golding discusses the concept of immune aging, immunosenescence and inflammaging and why it matters.

The field of immunomodulation and regenerative medicine has recently witnessed major interest in using oligonucleotide-based strategies to shape immune ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have identified new properties of CD4-positive T cells in the human intestines and liver ...