US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced he is canceling US $500 million (£374 million) of research into mRNA ...

Cells have evolved ingenious ways to defend themselves from viral attack. Research from The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute ...

In a recent review published in Science Bulletin, Professor Chen-Yu Zhang’s group at Nanjing University introduced the ...

Starting in the mid-2010s, the University of Oxford pediatrician and immunologist began working with scientists in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, with the aim of tracking several hundred ...

Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their ...

Several studies have now demonstrated that trained immunity occurs in the airways to several pathogens and products, while its utility is yet to be determined.

Additionally, these experiments showed that this early interferon activity is vital to a common form of cancer treatment, called immune checkpoint inhibitors. These treatments rip the breaks off of ...

If vaccines can improve the adaptive immune response prior to a disease challenge, what can be done to improve the innate ...

Low vitamin D levels are linked to a 36% higher risk of COVID-19 hospitalization, though not infection. Experts suggest ...

Both adaptive and innate immune memory responses have been described in gamma delta T cells, yet the mechanisms, the ligands and the gamma delta T cell subsets generating memory responses have remain ...