When the worldwide death toll from Covid-19 surpassed five million two weeks ago, it served as a grim reminder that more than lockdowns and vaccines will be needed to end the pandemic. A new study, ...

This is part of a series of stories on the protective role of innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) in the gut and other tissues, focusing on SARS-CoV-2 infection. One area that hasn’t received all that much ...

The immune-boosting power of a fever is surprisingly ancient. Cold-blooded creatures like fish typically move to warmer environments to help fight infections. In one fish species, Nile tilapia, that ...

Adaptive Biotechnologies and tech giant Microsoft first teamed up in 2018, they were using cloud computing to “decode” the immune system. Using immuno-sequencing, proprietary computational modeling ...

Twins may look alike on the outside, but not so much on the inside. That's one takeaway from a new preprint study posted to the medRxiv* server where Brazilian researchers observed different T-cell ...

In a series of three extraordinary papers published between 2004 and 2013, Max D. Cooper and colleagues discovered a new type of adaptive immunity in jawless vertebrates. This revolutionary discovery ...

The discovery of altered adaptive immunity in anglerfish helps explain how the creatures are able to temporarily or permanently fuse with their mates without experiencing immune rejection. For most ...

Our immune system is divided into two main branches: innate and adaptive. Innate immune cells act as a first line of defense, quickly responding to invaders, while adaptive immune cells take a longer ...

The innate/general resistance system and the adaptive system are the two main subsystems of the immune system. To generate an efficient immune response, the innate and adaptive systems constantly ...