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 ...

Women have a higher proportion of key immune cells between puberty and menopause, which may be linked to the sex hormone ...

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

Our immune system senses the presence of pathogens — molecules that are recognized as being different from our normal “self ... which can further direct the immune response to specific neoantigens. We ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.