Scientists have uncovered a critical piece of the puzzle in autoimmune diseases: a protein that helps release immune response ...

Harvard Medical School scientists have identified a key protein in the human immune system that drives inflammatory and ...

have uncovered how bacteria and their toxins prompt the human immune response, leading to inflammation. Inflammation plays a crucial role in fighting infections and healing injuries, but when it ...

Autoimmune diseases, which are estimated to affect more than 15 million people in the U.S., occur when the body responds to immune-system false alarms, and infection-fighting first responders are sent ...

Our blood consists of many cell types that develop through different stages from a precursor type -- the blood stem cell. An international research team has now investigated the developmental pathways ...

and several new approaches seem to improve the capacity of these mice to recapitulate normal human innate and adaptive immune responses. The momentum in the field is great, and all look forward to ...

In normal quantities, cytokines help the immune response; however ... of developing a severe form of the disease. Variations in human leukocyte antigen alleles (a group of genes involved in ...

Researchers in the Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology have identified that features of the immune system ... diseases are normal components of the immune system in human gut that interact ...

As part of the innate immune system, dendritic cells are in the body's first line of defense against infections. They detect pathogens and coordinate the immune response. An international team led ...

He teaches classes about the human body at Washington State University. He told me that allergies happen when your immune system overreacts to a normal thing it perceives as a threat to your body.