Innate lymphoid cells, which curiously behave like T cells even though they don’t recognize specific antigens, show promise as a potential cancer therapeutic. In the years that followed, other groups ...

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 ...

Chronological aging is a major risk factor for many neurodegenerative disorders affecting both the brain and the eye, including Alzheimer’s disease, ...

SARS-CoV-2 has an enzyme that can counteract a cell's innate defense mechanism against viruses, explaining why it is more infectious than the previous SARS and MERS-causing viruses. The discovery may ...

Barrier immunity is the first stage of the innate immune response and refers to the physical and chemical barriers that we produce to ward off persistent threats. Think of our eyes and their tears, ...

As part of the body's first line of defense against foreign invaders, macrophages play an integral role in the innate immune ...

Along with defending against pathogens, the body's innate immune system helps to protect the stability of our genomes in unexpected ways - ways that have important implications for the development of ...

Emerging evidence suggests that leptin, dysbiosis, and altered innate immunity may contribute to poor asthma control in ...

Citrullination, a post-translational modification of proteins catalysed by peptidyl-arginine-deiminase (PAD) enzymes, plays a critical role in the formation ...