Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center have found that a cellular housekeeping mechanism called autophagy plays a major role ...

As people age, their immune system function declines. T cell populations become smaller and can't react to pathogens as ...

Stress and broken sleep do not just leave people groggy, they quietly chip away at the very immune cells that keep infections ...

A new study analyzing the immune response to COVID-19 in a Catalan cohort of health workers sheds light on an important ...

Major histocompatibility complex class II (MHC-II) molecules play a critical, yet historically overlooked, role in tumor immunity.

Background Withdrawal of prolonged nucleos(t)ide analogue (NA) treatment results in hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) loss in some subjects with chronic hepatitis B (CHB), potentially revealing ...

Why do certain immune cells remain permanently active in allergic asthma—even in an environment that should actually damage them? A team from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the University of ...

Vaccine efficacy against infection wanes, but does everyone need a 2nd booster? This is a MedPage Today story. As the U.S. experiences a dip in COVID-19 cases and mask mandates are being lifted, some ...

Plants form a critical model for understanding regulated cell death (RCD) as part of their sophisticated immune responses. In the ongoing evolutionary arms ...