Researchers show that the immune system can recognize and control the latent stage of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, a finding that can inform the study of latency in other infections of the nervous ...

Most humans have long-lived infections in various tissues—including in the nervous system—that typically do not result in disease. The microbes associated with these infections enter a latent stage ...

SARS-CoV-2 has an enzyme that can counteract a cell's innate defense mechanism against viruses, explaining why it is more infectious than the previous SARS and MERS-causing viruses. The discovery may ...

In the middle of a global pandemic, people now, more than ever, are invested in understanding how their immune system works. Although many questions remain in the field of immunology research, The Sun ...

Antibodies, which recognize viruses and proteins that the body has encountered before, have long gotten most of the credit for giving the human immune system a memory. Now, researchers at the ...

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) is a condition that can develop as a severe complication of pneumonia, sepsis, or trauma resulting in life-threatening lung injury with fluid leakage into ...

(This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) Usually, scientists believe that an immune system response kicks ...

600-patient study to assess efficacy of rhu-pGSN, an immune system regulator that interrupts the NLRP3 inflammasome and boosts macrophage clearance of pathogens. Results from this landmark study ...

Vaccines today are more efficient and contain far fewer stimulants to the immune system than some used decades ago. By Apoorva Mandavilli It’s an idea as popular as it is incorrect: American babies ...