The human immune system usually works wonders, protecting us from all sorts of diseases. However, if the immune system goes into overdrive, it can become even more dangerous than the diseases it ...

You must have heard people around you often say that someone’s immunity is low or to eat healthy so that your immunity is better. Has your mind ever gone to who or what even is immunity? Well, ...

DMBT1 is a multifunctional secreted protein that plays a pivotal role in the body’s first line of defence across mucosal surfaces. Characterised by its scavenger receptor cysteine-rich (SRCR) domains, ...

Microscopy data of immune cells called macrophages were collected and analyzed by Williamson and Byerly and published as part ...

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 ...

In a new study, an international team of researchers led by Dr Eva Rieser and Professor Henning Walczak from the University of Cologne have shown that the enzyme ANKIB1 is crucial for the process of ...

Regulatory T cells are a type of white blood cell that can help identify and repair damaged tissues. It's been thought that various tissues hold specific populations of T cells that remain there to ...

In recent years, the increase in knowledge about the functioning of the immune system has revealed not only its importance in ...