Conventional wisdom has held for some time that children who grow up in environments rich with biodiversity—farms, homes with ...

DMBT1 is a multifunctional secreted protein that plays a pivotal role in the body’s first line of defence across mucosal surfaces. Characterised by its scavenger receptor cysteine-rich (SRCR) domains, ...

The human immune system usually works wonders, protecting us from all sorts of diseases. However, if the immune system goes into overdrive, it can become even more dangerous than the diseases it ...

The immune system can work in two ways: the innate immune system reacts to any foreign invaders that are identified by immune cells that look for such pathogens; but the acquired or adaptive immune ...

The immune system is crucial to our health. It must sense pathogens and respond to these threats effectively. But the immune system also has to be carefully controlled. If it starts to attack healthy ...

Researchers at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Faculty of Biology have identified a unique mechanism involved in the aging of the immune system – along with a framework for enhancing its ...