Ocular infections and related inflammatory disorders are important causes of visual morbidity worldwide and may arise from viral, bacterial, fungal, and ...

What the research is about When a virus enters the body, our body quickly detects it and begins to respond. This first ...

Innate lymphoid cells, which curiously behave like T cells even though they don’t recognize specific antigens, show promise as a potential cancer therapeutic. In the years that followed, other groups ...

We sometimes hear about the benefits of “boosting” our immune system, but what we really want to do is support our immune system on an ongoing basis. People often think of the immune system as ...

Our immune system is much older than we think. Long before dinosaurs existed, early life forms had developed a powerful ...

Unlike transient innate immune activation, trained immunity is characterized by long-lasting but reversible functional reprogramming of monocytes, macrophages, natural killer (NK) cells, and ...

People with hard-to-treat asthma often have to use medicines such as systemic steroids that broadly suppress the immune ...

Globally, respiratory tract infections remain the leading cause of both morbidity and mortality amongst the population. The burden is further increased by ...

In the recent decades, there has been an increase in the aging population across the world coupled with declining birth rates and an increased lifespan of individuals. The proportion of the elderly in ...