Every time our body encounters a new disease-causing agent, a crucial defense system called adaptive immunity comes into play ...

When a T cell encounters a cell carrying pieces of a virus or bacteria, the two form a tight contact point known as an immune ...

A microscopic parasite that can live for decades in the human brain infects an estimated one-third of the world's population ...

New research from the University of Minnesota Medical School offers a new view of how the immune system responds to organ ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden battle between a widespread brain parasite and the immune cells tasked with destroying it. A parasite that can quietly persist in the human brain is capable of ...

We owe a lot to tissue resident memory T cells (T RM). These specialized immune cells are among the body's first responders to disease. Rather than coursing through the bloodstream-as many T cells ...

Researchers have developed a new class of antibodies that amplify the immune system’s ability to fight cancer. By clustering ...

As the flu season ramps up, a mutated A(H3N2) strain is already driving outbreaks in Canada, the UK, and Japan. That’s why ...