A macrophage that has already fought off one infection does not return to a blank slate. It carries chemical scars, etched ...

The ongoing global climate crisis is characterized by rising mean water temperatures, thermal stress, ocean acidification, and fluctuating dissolved oxygen ...

Inflammation research sits at the intersection of immunology, systems biology, and molecular medicine, focusing on the cellular and molecular mechanisms ...

Engineered immune cells spark cancer immunotherapy hope, following metabolic by-products secreted by cancer cells to eliminate tumors.

Immunity is orchestrated by two responses referred to as the innate and adaptive immune systems. Each system works to minimize and clear infections. The innate immune response is a broad-targeting ...

In a paradigm-breaking study, researchers have discovered a novel way the immune system, specifically T cells, attack their target cells, reshaping long-held assumptions in immunology and ...

In a paradigm breaking study, Dr. Pavan Reddy, director of the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and his team, in collaboration with Drs. Arul Chinnaiyan, S ...

A draft assessment of the health of nature in the United States is grim but shot through with bright spots and possibility. By Catrin Einhorn Scientists and other experts were preparing a first-of-its ...

Scientists at The Wistar Institute have developed an HIV vaccine candidate that achieves something never before observed in the field: inducing neutralizing antibodies against HIV after a single ...

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a DNA virus that causes inflammation of the liver. It is transmitted through unprotected sexual intercourse, contact with infected blood, and ...

Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have identified a new way to reprogram T cells, which are infection and tumor-fighting white blood cells, so that they have a ...

For years, scientists have puzzled over the paradoxical relationship between cancer and retinoids, the metabolites that animals and people produce when their bodies break down vitamin A. About 40 ...