The immune system’s first encounter with a virus or vaccine establishes a “starting template” that shapes its response to new ...

The relationship between inflammation and cancer represents one of the central paradoxes in modern tumor immunology. On one hand, chronic inflammation is a ...

Though an estimated 60 million people around the world have atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a type of irregular and often fast heartbeat, it's been at least 30 years since any new treatments have been ...

Every day, billions of damaged or unnecessary cells die and are swept away by the immune system’s cleanup crew—phagocytes. But when that clearance falters, dangerous cells can linger, fueling cancer ...

Yersinia pseudotuberculosis (Yptb), a gram-negative bacterium, is known to cause severe intestinal infections that can disseminate to internal organs, particularly the liver. In this essay, we ...

A tandem signaling process turns ordinary cells into an efficient cleanup crew. Billions of our cells die every day to make way for the growth of new ones. Most of these goners are cleaned up by ...

An antibody (teal) bound to its target, the HIV protein Env (white and gray), also attaches to an immune cell via a receptor (red) on the immune cell’s surface. This interaction can activate the ...

A new drug being trialed in heart attack patients could reprogram the immune system to prevent inflammation and heart damage following severe heart attacks, and promote repair. This could be a ...