Olga Rivera Ballesteros from the Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM) at the Department of Medicine, Huddinge (MedH) is ...

The good news is that existing vaccines also prevent this process. By blocking the virus from infecting the immune system in ...

While naïve T cells lacked the disease-fighting imprinting of memory cells, they became more effective when RUNX2 was added. They also lived longer and the gene protected them against exhaustion ...

Measles directly attacks the immune system, wiping out antibody protection. A little-known potential side effect of measles ...

Treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs) occurred in a similar proportion of patients in each group, and were mostly mild or ...

Certain immune cells in MS show abnormalities in activity and signs of reactions against the Epstein-Barr virus, a study says ...

Although effector activity and memory formation in CD8 + T cells are known to depend on mTORC1-mediated metabolic regulation, the molecular mechanisms involved are lesser known. Here authors ...

Measles is unlike other childhood viruses. In severe cases, it can cause pneumonia. About 1 in 1,000 patients develops ...

Solid tumors often provide a challenging environment for the T cells of our immune system. By reprogramming the metabolism of ...

Researchers from The University of Texas at Arlington and the University of California–San Francisco have used a new ...

Memory B cells are particularly long-lived and ... Exhaustion is something cancer immunologists have been focused on with T cells – immune cells that destroy pathogens, such as cancer.