A major debate during the pandemic, and in infectious disease research more broadly, is why infected people die. No virus
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Activating the brain’s immune system against cancer prevents it from spreading
Groundbreaking research from Tel Aviv University may lead to a significant breakthrough in the battle against deadly brain cancer. To
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Infant antibiotic exposure can affect future immune responses toward allergies
Exposure to antibiotics in utero and infancy can lead to an irreversible loss of regulatory T-cells in the colon—a valuable
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Fatty liver hepatitis is caused by auto-aggressive immune cells
Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), often called ‘fatty liver hepatitis,’ can lead to serious liver damage and liver cancer. A team of
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New immune system findings could accelerate ‘on-demand’ production of antibody-based drugs and vaccines
Being able to predict antibody-antigen binding is a key issue in immunology and very important for the work of making
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Immune interference: Why even ‘updated’ vaccines could struggle to keep up with emerging coronavirus strains
Despite the success and optimism of the new COVID-19 vaccination campaigns being rolled out worldwide, the emergence of new viral
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New insights on how immune cells are recruited and reprogrammed to drive tumor development
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet show how a certain type of immune cells, macrophages, can be recruited into breast cancer tumors,
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
The rapid advancement and widespread use of immune checkpoint inhibitors for cancer therapy purposes have revolutionized the way in which
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Myeloid immune cells in the blood tied to severe COVID-19
Individual variations in how the immune system responds to SARS-CoV-2 appear to impact the severity of disease. Researchers at Karolinska
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Investigators discover unique immune cells in patients with checkpoint inhibitor-induced arthritis
Since doctors began treating cancer patients with immunotherapy drugs called checkpoint inhibitors nearly a decade ago, they have observed that
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