Two years after this, Sakaguchi was able to link these discoveries. He proved that the Foxp3 gene governs the development of ...

A single signaling pathway controls whether immune cells attack or befriend cells they encounter while patrolling our bodies, ...

If the COVID-19 pandemic has done one thing, it’s made us all more familiar with some of the important players in the immune system. Antibodies, B cells, and T cells are among the best known parts of ...

A team has identified a previously unknown phase of the immune response. The results challenge long-standing assumptions about the process called 'T-cell priming'. These new insights have significant ...

Scientists have discovered novel immune responses that help explain how some individuals avoid getting COVID-19. Using single-cell sequencing, researchers studied immune responses against SARS-CoV-2 ...

Scientists generally agree that eukaryotes, the domain of life whose cells contain nuclei and that includes almost all multicellular organisms, originated from a process involving the symbiotic union ...

Helen McGettrick receives funding from the Medical Research Council, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Wellcome Trust, F Hoffmann-La Roche Ag, Versus Arthritis, Dompè ...