The immune system of animals and man is extremely complex. This report will discuss the effect metals have on one segment of the immune system; that is, humoral immunity. Humoral immunity is ...

Robert A. Barrington, Thomas J. Schneider, Lisa A. Pitcher, Thorsten R. Mempel, Minghe Ma, Natasha S. Barteneva, Michael C. Carroll, Douglas T. Fearon Proceedings of ...

In a recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers reviewed selected acute-phase proteins concerning their production, structure, and function. The advent of severe acute ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with immune-mediated inflammatory disease undergoing immunosuppressive therapy gain a “significant ...

Those with even a rudimentary knowledge of biomedical progress understand how advances in delineating the components of the immune system have led to new means of manipulating it, including vaccines ...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic has claimed an estimated 15 million lives, including more than 1 million lives in the United States alone. The rapid development of multiple Covid-19 ...

Changes to serum proteins could be behind the debilitating condition known as long COVID. The findings, published in the journal Science, could pave the way for diagnosing and treating the disease.

Oncolytic virus immunotherapy has been proposed as a step forward for cancer treatment because it can kill cancer cells while activating the immune system. However, its current clinical application is ...

Researchers aimed to track the clinical course and characterize the global and COVID-specific immunity in the blood of individuals with long COVID. Two recent studies have analyzed the blood of ...

Adherence to HIV medications is the greatest predictor of death. How well patients with HIV adhere to their regimens of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) medication depends on a variety of ...