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 ...

"Immunity is a complex response that is broadly divided into two phases: innate immunity and adaptive immunity," says Shruti Sharma, assistant professor of immunology at Tufts University School of ...

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

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

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

The global aquaculture industry faces an urgent need to eliminate antibiotic dependency while sustaining productivity against increasingly complex disease ...

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 ...

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