Understanding both kinds of changes is becoming increasingly important as people live longer worldwide. Age-related immune ...

Long-lasting antibody responses depend on immune cells that are difficult to observe inside living human tissue. An ...

Antibodies are best known for their ability to latch onto and neutralize bacteria, viruses and other pathogens. But these immune proteins can do more than that: They also activate other components of ...

A team at the Medical University of South Carolina and Cincinnati Children's has developed a sophisticated model for studying the diseased colon that could lead to the development of personalized ...

Researchers explore the human immune system by looking at the active components, namely the various genes and cells involved. But there is a broad range of these, and observations necessarily produce ...

The immune system is a highly sophisticated defense network designed to protect against pathogens. A research team from the ...

Cigarette smoking is prevalent worldwide and causes numerous diseases, yet our understanding of how cigarette smoke (CS) causes serious respiratory illnesses is incomplete, and has held back the ...

With age, that braking system may become less reliable. The immune system can grow less effective at responding to genuine ...

Dr. Jorge Munera in his laboratory at the Medical University of South Caroilina. Dr. Munera is an MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researcher and an assistant professor in the Department of Regenerative ...