More than three decades ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) as the first ...

Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation (Nasdaq: ADPT), a commercial stage biotechnology company that aims to translate the ...

The body’s pathogen fighters can act as surveillance forces that ferry information from the gut and fat deposits to the brain ...

Groundbreaking study reveals TR1 cells' crucial role in immune response to malaria, paving way for new vaccines and drugs.

What happens when the dengue virus enters the body? What kind of immunity cells does it encounter? What does the body's ...

Adaptive immune responses are generated in ... can be bound by the receptors of either the innate or the acquired immune system. Molecules recognized by receptors on lymphocytes are generically ...

The immune system can work in two ways: the innate immune system reacts to any foreign invaders that are identified by immune ...

The adaptive immune system’s ability to recognize cancer cells based on previous exposures to similar cellular abnormalities can actually improve with immunological experience, creating more ...

Your acquired or adaptive immunity is more developed over time as you're exposed to different infections, viruses, or vaccinations. If you have a weakened immune system, you become more likely to ...

During evolution, the innate immune system appeared before the adaptive immune system, and some form of innate immunity probably exists in all multicellular organisms. By contrast with adaptive ...

Both exist within an individual because they serve distinct purposes. The adaptive immune system is more effective at eliminating viruses than the innate immune system, Whiteley says, but the innate ...