The new vaccine is delivered as a nasal spray and it activates white blood cells in the lungs. The vaccine puts them on ...

A new Stanford study marks a big step forward in the creation of a new kind of vaccine that offers protection against a range ...

A breakthrough study, led by scientists at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland, has uncovered how daylight can boost the immune system's ability to fight infections. The team focused on the ...

A research team from Umeå University, Sweden, in collaboration with Ghent University, Belgium, has made a groundbreaking discovery about how the body's first immune defense, neutrophils, orchestrate ...

From the moment they’re born, newborns — or, specifically, their immune systems — must learn to fight germs without harming their own tissues. In a new study, Yale researchers found that one type of ...

A new study identifies an extreme but effective way that brain immune cells can prevent the parasite Toxoplasma gondii from spreading: they kill themselves to eliminate the dangerous microbes they ...

When used in low doses, the anti-cancer drug imatinib may help immune cells fight bacterial infections, according to research from the Emory School of Medicine and Winship Cancer Institute in Atlanta.

The findings could improve how we fight some infections, allergies and auto-immune diseases. The discovery by researchers from Melbourne, Monash and Harvard Universities and published today in the ...

When food is scarce, stress hormones direct the immune system to operate in "low power" mode to preserve immune function while conserving energy, according to researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Dcir recognizes Aspergillus fumigatus hyphae and dampens the degranulatory activity of neutrophils. Without Dcir, neutrophils show enhanced fungicidal activity, and the host’s ability to eliminate the ...