Innate immunity is an ancient and highly diversified layer of host defense. In vertebrates its evolution has been tied closely to the origin and ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute, King's College London and Complutense University of Madrid have shown that γδ T cells use adaptive immune receptors to drive rapid, innate-like responses to ...

A review in Frontiers in Pediatrics summarizes how the fetal adaptive and innate immune systems develop across gestation and ...

The innate response's job is to assess the threat and determine how best to handle it. When it has a firm grasp on the situation, and if it can't deal with the threat itself, the innate response ...

He began searching for novel parasite-fighting immune cells. McKenzie knew that IL-25 triggers a class of T cells called type-2 helper T cells (Th2s) to proliferate and produce IL-13, and he wondered ...

A new review maps how RNA- and DNA-sensing innate immune pathways determine whether cardiotropic viral infection resolves or ...

Your immune system does not come pre-loaded with answers. It learns them, one encounter at a time, and stores what it learns ...