Your innate immunity is considered the first line of defense and includes things such as tears and mucus, blood clots, stomach acids, natural killer cells, and mast cells. Your acquired or ...

A fungal infection has been shown to trigger a fruit fly’s immune system to destroy brain cells leading to signs of ...

A fungal infection has been shown to trigger a fruit fly's own immune system to destroy brain cells, leading to signs of ...

A study led by TUM researchers finds that cystic fibrosis alters immune cells early in life, likely before birth. These ...

"Who are you?" This question, in its many variations, is almost inevitable in school applications, job interviews or introspective moments. We spend years, perhaps our entire lives, unraveling the ...

Despite new medication, cystic fibrosis often leads to permanent lung damage. Working with an international team, researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have discovered that the ...

A fungal infection has been shown to trigger a fruit fly's own immune system to destroy brain cells leading to signs of neurodegeneration, a new study ...

Miriam Merad, Mount Sinai, USA, has studied how cells in the immune system affect the body’s ability to fight tumours. Her ...

Understanding why newborns, but not adults, can regenerate the heart could lead to treatments that "reprogram" adult macrophages.

A fungal infection has been shown to trigger a fruit fly’s own immune system to destroy brain cells leading to signs of neurodegeneration, a new study published in PLOS Biology today (Thursday 13 ...