Our immune system spans two worlds—innate and adaptive. Innate immune cells are like troops at the gate ready to hold off invaders and raise the body’s alarms. Adaptive immune cells are ...

Human innate immune cells that “remember” previous stimulation could provide new insights into chronic inflammatory diseases.

Blood stem cells, which give rise to all of our blood cell types, undergo a quality assurance process after they're born. As ...

A Cleveland Clinic-led research collaboration between Timothy Chan, MD, Ph.D., Chair of Cleveland Clinic's Global Center for ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease in which the immune system attacks the central nervous system. This ...

Scientists discovered a targetable molecule that reprograms immune cells and turns them into cancer promoters. Cancer has been described as "a wound that does not heal," implying that the immune ...

A team led by Swedish scientists monitored 23 trans men who were treated with testosterone, collecting blood samples before and after treatment to see how their immune cells changed. While the ...

The study reveals that moderate fever enhances CD4 T cell activity while reducing regulatory T cell suppression, highlighting ...

Cancer cells seldom start off stealthy. Quite to the contrary, they announce their presence to the immune system by planting chemical red flags right on their membranes. Once alerted, the body's ...

A previously unrecognized type of immune cell may be responsible for the itchy feeling brought on by bug bites and other allergic reactions. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Injecting regulatory T cells or Tregs, which control the body’s immune responses, directly into damaged bone, muscle and skin significantly boosts healing, according to new research. The door is ...

Scientists have uncovered critical differences between how innate-like T cells mature in humans and mice. Early in life, most innate-like T cells in the human thymus aren't able to use all of their ...