The immune system depends on molecular alarms that detect danger inside cells. One of these alarms is STING, short for ...

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 ...

Since 2022, mpox virus (MPXV), a zoonotic orthopoxvirus closely related to variola virus (VARV), has triggered a global outbreak of unprecedented scale and geographic reach. Initial clusters in ...

Immunotherapies – treatments that aim to make the body's natural immune system more effective – are becoming more widely used ...

SARS-CoV-2 has emerged as the 5th endemic coronavirus and immunological cross protection between coronaviruses will influence their infectivity and clinical impact. We determined adaptive immunity ...

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 ...

"Peacemaker" immune cells could help treat diseases ranging from type 1 diabetes to neurodegeneration by restoring immune ...

Prior COVID-19 vaccination did not stop the immune system from mounting a protective response to the delta and omicron strains, though new mutation-specific antibody production dipped slightly, ...

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

Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified an important immune response that helps explain why some cancer patients benefit from immunotherapy while others do not. In a ...

A new study identifies sex-specific glioblastoma immune mechanism where GABA reprograms granulocytic MDSCs to fuel tumor growth solely in females.

Adults aged 50 years and older demonstrate strong, durable immune responses after receiving an additional dose of the recombinant zoster vaccine.