Immune functions in the mouse intestine differ by segment.

A video captures T cells learning to recognize cells from the body that shouldn’t be attacked.

Immune cells in the mouse gut help recognize damaging compounds and prompt intestinal stem cells to repair DNA.

Researchers find that it’s not just high-risk genes, but how children’s bodies respond to their own intestinal microbiota that relates to future diagnoses of type 1 diabetes.

Children were 38 percent less likely to show signs of Zika infection if they had previously had dengue.

Using his expertise in microbiology and bioinformatics, he is bringing a new understanding to microbial immune systems.

The presence of aromatic greens in with other building materials increased the time birds sat on their eggs, improving the health of the hatchlings.

Despite the treatment being given for only six weeks, the positive effects lasted for a year.

A study of Shuar children in Ecuador provides a window into how the human body responds to infection in the sorts of conditions that shaped our species’ evolution.