When our body fights an infection, the immune system must quickly activate defenses and trigger a beneficial inflammatory ...

UVA researcher Blandine Baffert, working in the lab of UVA Health’s Sanja Arandjelovic and collaborating with researchers in ...

Researchers have identified an enzyme that controls the maturation and long-term survival of tissue-resident macrophages.

Scientists at KAIST have found a way to turn a tumor’s own immune cells into powerful cancer fighters—right inside the body.

Study findings map out a new way in which antiviral signals engage with cellular metabolism to balance defense and repair.

Aging immune cells may be sabotaging the body from within. Researchers found that macrophages produce a protein that locks ...

Trojan horse” approach may enable ‘antigen-independent’ therapy with potential to treat cancers not traditionally amenable to immunotherapy.

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer ...

Acid resistance is a crucial property that enterobacteria must possess to withstand host acidic environments during infection ...

The study, conducted in mice and published in the Nature journal, identifies a key role of gut macrophages -- a specialised immune cell that kills pathogens -- in the transfer of toxic proteins from ...