A new discovery about how cells communicate with each other in the body's immune system has revealed deeper insights for an ...

In a study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, scientists show that the SAMD9 and SAMD9L genes, key players in antiviral immunity in humans and involved in rare genetic diseases, share very ...

A new study has shown that person-to-person variation in antibody immunity plays a key role in shaping which influenza (flu) strains dominate in a population. The work, published today as a Reviewed ...

The immune system is highly trained to detect and eliminate any potential threat to the human body. While years of evolution have turned this system into a pathogen-killing machine, the microbes it ...