Your immune system harbors a lifetime's worth of information about threats it's encountered - a biological Rolodex of baddies. Often the perpetrators are viruses and bacteria you've conquered; others ...
Fighting off pathogens is a tour de force that must happen with speed and precision. A team of researchers at CeMM and MedUni Vienna led by Christoph Bock and Matthias Farlik has investigated how ...
Most cells evolve slowly, accumulating incremental changes that better suit their environments. Immune cells, because they must adapt rapidly to counter new threats, evolve much more quickly. Part of ...
A single signaling pathway controls whether immune cells attack or befriend cells they encounter while patrolling our bodies, ...
Simply the smell of seafood can make those with an allergy to it violently ill — and therefore more likely to avoid it. The same avoidance behavior is exhibited by people who develop food poisoning ...
Cancer immunotherapies, including cancer vaccines, harness and amplify the immune system’s natural ability to detect and attack cancer cells. In this illustration, immune T cells (pink) attach to a ...
CU Boulder researchers, with an international team of colleagues, find that childhood pets are linked to healthier stress responses If you grew up in a city and without a pet, your immune system ...
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