This study shows that SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination generate strong, highly specific spike-binding immune responses ...

It’s cold and flu season and most of us will encounter a virus at some point. So, how does our immune system work to keep us healthy? According to Dr. Michaela Gack, Scientific Director of the ...

A ferocious surge of flu cases is linked in part to a variant that has not been dominant in the past few years — resulting in ...

A Northwestern Medicine study published in Nature Communications has revealed how HIV can protect infected cells by altering ...

Autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis arise when the immune system turns against the body itself. Yet for most of ...

UC Davis engineers are developing a device to measure whether immunity to a previous year's flu virus (or from vaccination) will protect against a new variant. Based on a microfluidic chip, the device ...

A research team led by Jackson Laboratory (JAX) Professor Karolina Palucka, M.D., Ph.D., in collaboration with a research team at Institut Curie in France led by Dr. Nicolas Manel, have addressed a ...

The innate immune system is the body's first line of defence against pathogens like bacteria or viruses. TRIM25 is a protein that is important in the innate immune response against RNA viruses, such ...

The main text describes the production and characterization of monoclonal antibodies against p15, the structural analysis of the p15-4E2 complex, and the construction and evaluation of p15-VLPs.

A new study has shown that person-to-person variation in antibody immunity plays a key role in shaping which influenza (flu) strains dominate in a population. The work, published today as a Reviewed ...

Regular exercise supports immune health by improving the circulation of your immune cells and reducing inflammation, but ...