A study conducted by researchers from São Paulo State University (UNESP), in Brazil, and collaborators shows that lemon ...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common type of primary liver cancer, accounts for about 75–85% of all liver cancer ...

A study has established the importance of immunoglobulin A, an antibody that is part of the immune system, in generating a response to pneumonia vaccines. Researchers have found that the absence of ...

The immune system responds to an infection by producing antibodies that recognize and bind to the cell surface of the pathogen, thus marking it as an intruder and triggering an immune response. For ...

A new study by LMU and Helmholtz Munich shows how pathogens control changes in their cell surface to evade the immune system.

The immune system responds to an infection by producing antibodies that recognize and bind to the cell surface of the pathogen, thus marking it as an intruder and triggering an immune response. For ...

Older individuals may experience several changes to their immune system, including, but not limited to: Slower immune system response time Decreased efficacy of vaccines Increased risk of developing ...

1The Precision Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York. 2Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.

What is the immune system? The immune system works to keep germs and other foreign substances out of the body and destroy any that get in. It's made up of a complicated network of cells and organs. It ...

Drug Discovery Lab, Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Hong Kong SAR 999077, People’s Republic of China Department of Chemistry, National University of ...

Thus, while R179 itself does not harbor the flagellin protein, its ability to suppress immune responses activated by flagellin provides it with a competitive advantage in a community, i.e ...