Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that gut bacteria help regulate the development of the body's ...

Bacteria that live peacefully in the human gut can aim molecular syringes at intestinal cells and fire proteins directly into ...

(Juan Gartner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) The human immune system has evolved an incredible ability to fight off ...

Oxford University research has found that a little-studied and relatively unknown part of the human immune system could be twice as important as previously thought. Mucosal Associated Invariant ...

A protein produced by gut immune cells orchestrates both immune protection against pathogens and immune tolerance of gut ...

As scientists gain a deeper understanding of how the body’s immune system remembers pathogens it must fight, the paradigm for ...

Plant immunity research has undergone a transformative shift with the advent of spatial and single-cell technologies, ...

While we tend to quickly forget having been ill or having received a vaccine, the immune system remembers remarkably well. It has memory B cells—"trained" immune cells that circulate throughout the ...

Phages, viruses that infect bacteria, could be genetically manipulated to destroy cancerous cells using the immunity we have ...