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Natural killer cells are supposed to be the immune system’s first responders against cancer. They don’t need to be trained on ...

A man in his 50s with poorly controlled diabetes and chronic kidney disease presented with rapidly progressive bilateral ...

A 3-hour WHO Hantavirus emergency Zoom call was held this morning, providing outbreak analysis. It seemed that for every question asked many more questions were raised.

The complement system is an intricate network of plasma proteins that defends against pathogens and clears cellular debris. Under normal conditions, activation proceeds through classical, lectin and ...

A new review has illuminated a critical but often overlooked dimension of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD)—its immune ...

The story of Q32 Bio, a company that develops therapeutics for inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, started two decades ago. That's when V. Michael Holers, MD, a University of Colorado School of ...

The immune system has evolved to act as a first responder against infections, and scientists have revealed how it knows when to activate.

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have uncovered the mathematical rules that govern one of the body’s oldest and most important immune system defenses, the complement system, according to ...

The adaptive immune system is an antigen-specific structure that discriminates non-self molecules through the recognition of peptide antigens using receptor interactions between T-cells and ...

Our bodies response to invading pathogens through different mechanisms of the immune system. Innate immunity first detects disease and relays a defense signal to activate the second wave of immune ...