New RNA-based active agents reliably protect plants against the Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), the most common virus in agriculture and horticulture. They were developed by researchers at the Martin ...

Scientists have identified a protein in cells that spurs the release of infection-fighting molecules. The protein, whose role in the immune system had not previously been suspected, provides a ...

Type 1, not type 2 diabetes, is autoimmune. There are other rarer autoimmune types. Learn about type 2 diabetes, immunity, ...

Podcast reveals alarming drop in childhood vaccination rates to 85.4%, far below the 95% needed for measles herd immunity, as hosts connect the decline to "Trumpy" politics ...

Experts said there’s no conclusive evidence that a measles infection boosts a person’s immune system later in life against cancer, heart disease or atopic diseases. Several studies show that a measles ...

The City of Arp issued a boil water notice for their public water system on Wednesday after a water line break. The city said ...

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems ...

A team at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) led by Dr. Andrés Hidalgo has discovered a specialized population of neutrophils in the skin that produce extracellular matrix, ...

Germinal centers are high-speed evolution machines. Tiny clusters in the lymph nodes, germinal centers refine antibodies through mutation and expansion until they produce high-affinity B cells adapted ...

Sleep deprivation alters cells that release proteins known to trigger chronic inflammation and weaken the immune system.

Not only does our body change with age, but so does our immune system. A recent study led by the Center for Individualized Infection Medicine (CiiM) shows exactly how immune cells age and how ...