Infection-fighting T cells from people who have eaten recently can proliferate more quickly in response to threats.

Kidney damage is a serious complication affecting individuals with lupus, an autoimmune disease where immune B cells ...

For decades, cancer immunotherapy has focused primarily on CD8 + cytotoxic T lymphocytes as the main executors of tumor cell killing. However, growing clinical and single-cell sequencing evidence ...

The classical paradigm in immunology is that the immune system protects self from non-self. However, there are many cases where the immune system needs to tolerate non-self to avoid complications or ...

SLAMF6 is an immune cell receptor whose function was not clear. Does it activate or inhibit cells? The results so far have been contradictory. Now, scientists at the Institut de Recherches Cliniques ...

T cell activation—the process by which these key immune defenders recognize threats and mobilize against them—depends on exquisitely timed molecular signals. Now researchers have captured one of the ...

The research group of Prof. Sanjiv Luther at the Department of Immunobiology of the University of Lausanne has discovered ...

Our diet can affect our health in different ways–diet directly impacts the calories and nutrients we consume; it can influence metabolic functions; or have a major effect on the gut microbiome, for ...