Why do some vaccines protect for a lifetime, while threats like tumors and viruses present such an ongoing challenge? The ...

Bacteria living in healthy human intestines use molecular syringes to inject proteins that directly bind and adjust immune ...

The immune system, the body's defense network against infections and injuries, can sometimes become too active. In these ...

Researchers found that mRNA cancer vaccines can recruit an unexpected immune cell to launch powerful tumor-fighting responses ...

The adaptive immune system of vertebrates represents a major evolutionary innovation that underpins the capacity for antigen-specific recognition, immunological memory and refined regulation of host ...

Research into inflammation and the microbiome is pushing cosmetic science beyond moisture, wrinkles and the skin barrier.

The behavioural immune system comprises a suite of psychological and behavioural processes that have evolved to detect cues to infection and to minimise contact with pathogens. Central to this system ...

Researchers have found that a yeast-derived dietary supplement can reprogram developing immune cells in obese mice, ...

A defense system that cannot distinguish friend from stranger eventually harms the organization it is supposed to protect.

Dozens of research teams around the world are working to halt, treat and even prevent Alzheimer's disease, which silently ...

Yifat Merbl – a senior systems biologist/immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot – have overcome the hostility faced by Israel in much of the world’s scientific communities and ...