Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center have found that a cellular housekeeping mechanism called autophagy plays a major role ...

Kimchi may do far more than add flavor to meals—it could help fine-tune the human immune system. A clinical study using ...

A new study analyzing the immune response to COVID-19 in a Catalan cohort of health workers sheds light on an important ...

When a transplanted organ arrives, it’s like a controlled burn that risks becoming a wildfire. The body’s innate immune system senses damage signals, like heat shock proteins (HSP70), and sounds the ...

Stress and broken sleep do not just leave people groggy, they quietly chip away at the very immune cells that keep infections ...

Researchers are striving to understand the impact a phenomenon known as original antigenic sin has on immunity to the virus.

Major histocompatibility complex class II (MHC-II) molecules play a critical, yet historically overlooked, role in tumor immunity.

Plants form a critical model for understanding regulated cell death (RCD) as part of their sophisticated immune responses. In the ongoing evolutionary arms ...

Metabolic reprogramming in the tumor microenvironment shapes immune function and therapy resistance, offering insights into ...

Using human intestinal organoids, scientists uncovered a previously unknown immune function of M cells. By presenting gluten antigens to T cells, these cells may contribute directly to the development ...