While we tend to quickly forget having been ill or having received a vaccine, the immune system remembers remarkably well. It ...

Immune cells not only remember viruses, but can also secrete tumor-fighting antibodies, say Weizmann Institute researchers; ...

Antibodies, which recognize viruses and proteins that the body has encountered before, have long gotten most of the credit for giving the human immune system a memory. Now, researchers at the ...

The average human has about 1.8 trillion immune cells. These cells patrol the body for bacteria, viruses, cancers, and other threats. Vaccines enhance this security system by teaching our immune cells ...

New research suggests obesity may leave a long-lasting “memory” on the immune system, even years after weight loss.

Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have published the first-ever, in-depth analysis of immune cell memory in the upper airways of adult volunteers. Among these immune cells, the ...

The immune system is comprised of two separate active arms of immunity to provide robust protection against disease. The two separate systems of immunity include the innate and adaptive immune ...

A unique quality of the immune system is that it can generate a ‘memory’ response. This is generally referred to as ‘immune memory’ because of the body’s ability to remember previously encountered ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, researchers used nasopharyngeal swabs and single-cell ribonucleic acid (RNA) sequencing (scRNAseq) to characterize the populations of immune cells in ...

For decades, dogma dictated that the immune system consisted of two separate branches. Cells of the innate system respond rapidly to molecular patterns shared by a broad array of pathogens. Meanwhile, ...