It is generally agreed that a number of types of nutritional deficiencies, including vitamin D-deficient rickets, can cause a temporary state of immune deficiency. As a result, children with rickets ...

Trained immunity enhances innate immune responses, yet a Western lifestyle may lead to maladaptive trained immunity and drive ...

Trained immunity provides a unifying framework linking innate immune memory to both protective and maladaptive inflammation ...

Hai-Hui "Howard" Xue, Ph.D., of the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI) have shown how a critical pathway is fundamental to the immune system, in a new papers in the journal ...

Much like humans generate mountains of garbage, our cells are constantly discarding proteins that are damaged or no longer needed. The cellular waste disposal system called the proteasome is best ...

A T-cell response, or cellular immunity, was present in 100 people six months after their initial COVID-19 infection, according to a study published in the preprint server BioRxiv. Researchers from ...

Vaccine efficacy against infection wanes, but does everyone need a 2nd booster? This is a MedPage Today story. As the U.S. experiences a dip in COVID-19 cases and mask mandates are being lifted, some ...

Detailed immune profiling in long-term care populations reveals that SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and infections drive powerful virus-specific responses while leaving lifelong common cold immunity largely ...

New research comparing four different flu vaccines found that the ability of the vaccines to activate cells of the immune system that help to protect against infection varied greatly depending on the ...