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

Secondary infections caused by bacteria or viruses during hospital care remain a long-standing global challenge, despite ...

Researchers suggest a vaccine could replace multiple jabs every year for seasonal respiratory infections and be on hand in the event of a new pandemic.

Innate immunity is a foundational field in immunology, critical for understanding how organisms sense and respond to danger, be it pathogens or sterile ...

A unique quality of the immune system is that it can generate a ‘memory’ response. This is generally referred to as ‘immune ...

A section of Goodsell et al.’s magnificent “Integrative illustration for coronavirus outreach” highlighting the packaging of the viral genetic material (in pink) by the scaffold “nucleocapsid protein” ...

The immune system can work in two ways: the innate immune system reacts to any foreign invaders that are identified by immune cells that look for such pathogens; but the acquired or adaptive immune ...

A UCLA study found that macrophages rely on interferon gamma signaling from past infections to preserve innate defenses.