A protein produced by gut immune cells orchestrates both immune protection against pathogens and immune tolerance of gut ...

Evaxion Biotech A/S has announced promising new data on its personalized cancer vaccine, EVX-01, highlighting that 80% of the vaccine's targets elicited a tumor-specific immune response, significantly ...

A team has identified a previously unknown phase of the immune response. The results challenge long-standing assumptions about the process called 'T-cell priming'. These new insights have significant ...

A new study has uncovered a key mechanism that helps one of the deadliest brain cancers evade the immune system, according to ...

Researchers have identified a critical biological difference in how glioblastoma develops in male and female laboratory ...

A lot of things need to go right on a molecular level for immune cells to launch an adaptive response to an infection. B cells can produce different classes of antibodies tailored for specific ...

The immune system works to maintain homeostasis throughout the body. Various cell types and immune mechanisms work in concert to fight disease. Specifically, two waves of immunity orchestrate a robust ...

Full-body defense does not always look the way textbooks say it should. In planarian flatworms, a newly identified cell type ...

Each animal species has an optimal temperature at which it can metabolise food and its immune system can best fight off pathogens. As our recent research shows, temperature directly affects the immune ...

A new study of wild bats reveals that an animal's immune system is shaped by more than its need to fight infections. Researchers from the University of Maryland have found that sex, age and ...