A team led by researchers at the University of Cologne has identified a protein called ANKIB1 that acts as a volume dial for the body’s frontline immune defenses, controlling how strongly cells ...

Very early in the COVID-19 pandemic clinical trials in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 confirmed that corticosteroids like dexamethasone reduced mortality, but they were harmful when applied at ...

In cancer, particularly at late stages, strong regulatory T-cell (Treg) suppression and dysfunctional cytotoxic T lymphocytes hinder effective antitumor immunity. While anti-OX40 (aOX40) antibodies ...

Macrophages remain ready to fight infection thanks to signaling molecules left behind by previous infections. That is according to new research from scientists at the University of California, Los ...

Scientists in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and MIT have created a new family of tools that, for the first time, illuminates the missing half of how the immune system uses ...

Cytokines play a central role in regulating physiological processes, largely because of their ability to orchestrate intercellular communication. As ...

Scientists have long believed that a newborn’s immune system was an immature version of an adult’s, but research from Cornell University shows that newborns’ T cells—white blood cells that protect ...

People often get immunotherapy as a treatment for cancer. These immunotherapy treatments can be effective, but they may cause your immune system to have an unnatural response. Your body, as a result ...

Psoriasis, a chronic inflammatory skin condition characterized by dry and scaly skin lesions, affects about 7.5 million people in the United States. Psoriasis results from abnormal proliferation of ...