Innate immune sensors—known as pattern recognition receptors (PRRs)—detect specific molecular components of bacterial or ...

Food allergies are serious and, for some, potentially deadly. And yet, despite decades of research into allergies and what causes them, very little is known about why the vast majority of people are ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have developed a simplified version of biodegradable nanoparticles that can "educate" the immune system to find and destroy disease-causing cells throughout ...

The field of immunology has long recognized immune system dysregulation as a cornerstone of pathogenesis across a range of human diseases, including ...

Injecting viral peptides systemically into mice activated immune cells that then targeted pancreatic tumors, opening avenues to more accessible cancer therapy.

A new method enables engineered immune progenitor cells to replace microglia in mice and reveals how a genetic mutation can lead to inflammation in the brain.