Plants have an immune system, like people, and when it is triggered by threats like disease or pests, a plant's defenses are ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have discovered a promising new treatment approach for pancreatic ...

Conventional wisdom has held for some time that children who grow up in environments rich with biodiversity—farms, homes with pets, rural settings in general—are less likely to have allergies. The ...

Our immune response is not fixed. It is a living, adaptive network of cells and signals that evolves over our lifespan, bringing refinement and fragility. Early life is marked by immune learning and ...

The immune system can work in two ways: the innate immune system reacts to any foreign invaders that are identified by immune cells that look for such pathogens; but the acquired or adaptive immune ...

Researchers engineered a strain of Listeria monocytogenes that stimulates gamma delta T cells, key innate immune fighters ...

People who commonly experience everyday discrimination are more likely to have higher levels of “exhausted” white blood cells, suggesting that the chronic stress of discrimination may hamper the ...

Synthetic biology is rapidly expanding the use of microorganisms as therapeutic agents, with scientists engineering bacteria ...

Research in psychoneuroimmunology suggests strong relationships may reduce stress and inflammation, indirectly supporting ...