Whenever the immune system fights a pathogen, it has a memory of that experience, whether it's with an invader or a vaccine that mimics an infection, for example. Scientists have now developed a way ...
Your immune system harbors a lifetime's worth of information about threats it's encountered - a biological Rolodex of baddies. Often the perpetrators are viruses and bacteria you've conquered; others ...
An antibody (teal) bound to its target, the HIV protein Env (white and gray), also attaches to an immune cell via a receptor (red) on the immune cell’s surface. This interaction can activate the ...
Most cells evolve slowly, accumulating incremental changes that better suit their environments. Immune cells, because they must adapt rapidly to counter new threats, evolve much more quickly. Part of ...
Fighting off pathogens is a tour de force that must happen with speed and precision. A team of researchers at CeMM and MedUni Vienna led by Christoph Bock and Matthias Farlik has investigated how ...
ONE of the most important features of the immune system is that it can learn and remember, a kind of biological intelligence that is rivalled only by the brain. And just like the brain, researchers ...
Sufjan Stevens Has Rare Auto-Immune Disease, Reveals He’s Learning to Walk Again and in ‘Intensive’ Physical Therapy Steven J. Horowitz September 20, 2023 · 2 min read 1 Indie singer-songwriter Sufjan ...
Tumors actively prevent the formation of immune responses by so-called cytotoxic T cells, which are essential in combating cancer. Researchers have now uncovered for the first time how this exactly ...
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