Cells called neutrophils form gooey rings around sites where skin is punctured, study in mice shows. Immune cells in the skin ...

The molecule was found in soil samples collected from a laboratory technician’s garden. The discovery shows that “there is ...

Researchers show that the immune system can recognize and control the latent stage of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, a finding that can inform the study of latency in other infections of the nervous ...

Scientists are now looking to bacteriophage — viruses that infect bacteria — and their potential to treat drug-resistant ...

Helper T cells (Th cells) coordinate the immune response ... Overall, the immune system strengthens upon exposure to different pathogens. By adulthood, most people have been exposed to a range ...

Our immune systems develop to recognize what is foreign within our bodies. As immune cells are generated in the bone marrow ...

Our immune system works to fight infections immediately, but also maintain long-term immunity. Two waves of protection help ...

The immune system responds to an infection by producing antibodies that recognize and bind to the cell surface of the pathogen, thus marking it as an intruder and triggering an immune response.