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 ...

Along with defending against pathogens, the body's innate immune system helps to protect the stability of our genomes in ...

A US-Japanese trio on Monday won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for research into how the immune system is kept in check by ...

SARS-CoV-2 has an enzyme that can counteract a cell's innate defense mechanism against viruses, explaining why it is more infectious than the previous SARS and MERS-causing viruses. The discovery may ...

Cancer immunotherapy, which primes the body's immune system to fight off tumors, has historically focused on harnessing T cells' natural ability to recognize and attack cancer cells. While this ...

mRNA acts as blueprints that cells then base new proteins on. In the COVID-19 vaccines, the molecule contains instructions for a bit of the coronavirus; in the new cancer vaccine, it carries ...

Researchers from Penn’s School of Dental Medicine found that training innate immune system may lead to increased bone loss in inflammatory conditions. Credit: Chenyao Liu Researchers from Penn’s ...

Cancer immunotherapy has historically focused on harnessing the ability of T cells to recognize and attack cancer cells. Adaptive immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) unleash tumor-infiltrating ...

Our brains might prime our immune system merely by seeing someone who looks sick. A study published July 28 in Nature Neuroscience found that participants who saw sick-looking faces in virtual reality ...