T cells, which target infection and disease, can become more effective after a meal. The finding might help improve ...

Activated immune cells secrete tiny capsules bearing DNA that can enter other immune and tumor cells to stimulate the body's defense systems, according to a study led by investigators at Weill Cornell ...

It is generally agreed that a number of types of nutritional deficiencies, including vitamin D-deficient rickets, can cause a temporary state of immune deficiency. As a result, children with rickets ...

To our immune system, naked RNA is a sign of a viral or bacterial invasion and must be attacked. But our own cells also have RNA. To ward off trouble, our cells clothe their RNA in sugars, Vijay ...

Cancer cells can disarm the immune system not just by hiding from it, but by actively reprogramming nearby immune cells into a suppressed state. This previously unrecognized molecular interaction, ...

Hai-Hui "Howard" Xue, Ph.D., of the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI) have shown how a critical pathway is fundamental to the immune system, in a new papers in the journal ...

Precision medicine research on chemo-immunotherapy combination treatment for locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer based on deep plasma proteomics. Effect of fusobacterium ...

The immune system is the frontline protection against infection, continually searching for and destroying unknown pathogens.

Ocular infections and related inflammatory disorders are important causes of visual morbidity worldwide and may arise from viral, bacterial, fungal, and ...

New research suggests a high-salt diet may trick the immune system into prematurely aging the blood vessels, leading to ...