How close this was to the modern concept that the immune complex fixes complement, which leads to the release of the toxic mediators of the reaction 17. Indeed, Pirquet mentioned in passing the ...

Your immune system harbors a lifetime's worth of information about threats it's encountered—a biological Rolodex of baddies.

Much like humans generate mountains of garbage, our cells are constantly discarding proteins that are damaged or no longer ...

A team has developed scSPOT, a new technique that reveals how immune cells called Tregs simultaneously control the immune system. The team identified key immune cells controlled by Tregs and found ...

There seems to be a constant stream of articles in newspapers and on the internet suggesting that we can ‘boost’ our immune system by taking vitamins, minerals and probiotics, or by eating ...

"This new method provides a better understanding of how Tregs function in a complex immune environment in a way that closely resembles what happens in the human body," explains first author of the ...