Vaccines have traditionally worked by teaching the immune system to recognize a specific virus or bacterium—in effect, ...

An innovative approach supercharges the innate immune system to provide a first line of defence against respiratory ...

Cancer immunotherapies, including cancer vaccines, harness and amplify the immune system’s natural ability to detect and attack cancer cells. In this illustration, immune T cells (pink) attach to a ...

Why can the human immune system often remember a vaccination for a whole lifetime? Researchers at ...

Mammalian immunity has long been thought to rely solely on proteins and specialized immune cells. However, a newly proposed concept—RNA immunity—is reshaping this perspective. In a recent publication ...

A virus from humble black-eyed peas is showing extraordinary promise in the fight against cancer. Unlike other plant viruses, the cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) can awaken the human immune system and ...

To find these differences, the researchers compared immune cells and proteins from blood samples derived from 19 infants hospitalized with RSV infections, 30 infants hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 ...