adaptive immunity

Smoking leaves epigenetic marks on DNA long after cessation, with consequences for adaptive immunity.

New research revealed hundreds of lipid antigens that may be recognized by adaptive immune T cells.

Males recovered from mild COVID-19 have baseline immune states primed to mount stronger responses to future challenges.

Researchers find signatures pre- and post-vaccination that correlate with a more robust immune response. 

In this webinar, Alberto Lopez-Munoz will discuss SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein cell surface expression and its role in host immunity.

Explore food allergy immunotherapy for reversing patient symptoms.

Deletions in the sleepy lizard genome leave it without an important type of T cells found in most other vertebrates.

Understand host-pathogen interactions with single-cell and spatial technologies.

Researchers seek genomic clues to understand differences in the immune response to infection.

The Northwestern University researcher studies how adaptive immune cells influence neurodegenerative disease.

A suppressed immune system in anglerfish uncovers potential strategies for tissue transplantation.

Katie McKenna discusses a combination CAR T and viral therapy that kills solid tumors.

Mix-and-match shots could simplify vaccine rollout and stimulate more-robust immune responses. Ongoing clinical trials will soon give answers.

Alessandro Sette and Shane Crotty discuss the T cell response to SARS-CoV-2 and the implications for vaccine design and robust immune memory.

The rare complication known as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) differs from both Kawasaki disease and severe adult cases of COVID-19, a study finds.

Scientists are examining the role of T cells, which are likely crucial for long-term protection against SARS-CoV-2.

A rogue hybrid lymphocyte, bearing characteristics of both B and T cells, may play a role in driving autoimmunity in the disease, although the mechanism is far from clear.

Human natural killer cells, previously considered not to participate in adaptive immunity, remember viral antigens after initial exposures, according to a new study.

The transcriptional regulator dampens the immune system’s ability to elicit an antitumor response, a study shows.