Scripps Research assistant professor Tiantian Liu has received a five-year NIAID DP2 award from the National Institute of ...

The immune system may learn not to attack the body by using a small but representative sample of the body’s own protein ...

By using mRNA molecules to “remodel” parts of the immune system, researchers generated T cells that can slow the growth of ...

Artificial antigen-presenting cells (aAPCs) are engineered constructs designed to emulate the functions of professional antigen-presenting cells. By displaying tumour-associated peptide–MHC complexes ...

AIVITA Biomedical, Inc., a biotechnology company developing personalized vaccines for the prevention of infectious disease ...

Bacteria in lung tumors may boost the activation of innate immune cells in the presence of a common vitamin metabolite, ...

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified two distinct populations of cells known as antigen-presenting cancer-associated fibroblasts (apCAFs) that appear to support the survival and ...

The gastrointestinal tract is continuously exposed to foreign antigens in food and commensal microbes that have the potential to induce adaptive immune responses for food allergies. Upon genetic ...

We may have clusters of immune cells at the back of our skull that help ward off conditions like brain cancer ...

Every time our body encounters a new disease-causing agent, a crucial defense system called adaptive immunity comes into play. T cells, the top agents in this system, survey the internal environment ...

Tumor-associated bacteria enhanced MAIT cell activation when paired with a vitamin B2 metabolite, revealing a potential new ...