Why can the human immune system often remember a vaccination for a whole lifetime? Researchers at ...

Researchers at the University of Liège have identified a key genetic regulator that enables macrophages to reach full ...

A recent review highlights the critical role of DNA exonucleases and endonucleases in immune response and disease management, shedding new light on their potential applications in genomic stability, ...

There are trillions of microorganisms living in our gastrointestinal tract. So why doesn't the immune system launch a massive response against all of those foreign microbes? Scientists have now ...

In recent years, the increase in knowledge about the functioning of the immune system has revealed not only its importance in the defense against external agents such as pathogens or toxins, but also ...

It's widely known that breastfeeding impacts the health of both mother and child, but the underlying biology that leads to ...

Plants have an immune system, like people, and when it is triggered by threats like disease or pests, a plant's defenses are ...

Microscopy data of immune cells called macrophages were collected and analyzed by Williamson and Byerly and published as part ...

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The human immune system usually works wonders, protecting us from all sorts of diseases. However, if the immune system goes into overdrive, it can become even more dangerous than the diseases it ...

Regulatory T cells are a type of white blood cell that can help identify and repair damaged tissues. It's been thought that various tissues hold specific populations of T cells that remain there to ...