In a study published today (October 20) in Science Translational Medicine, researchers show that these cells, the most abundant in circulation, also alert the immune system to the presence of bacteria ...

How chronic activation of the innate immune system can lead to cancer The newer paper, led by first author Hexiao Wang, Ph.D.

Advances in the field identified components of both the innate and adaptive ... that pertain to the activation and perpetuation of adaptive immune responses during obesity and discuss key missing ...

I worked on some of the early studies on DNA recognition by the immune system, and seem to ... role as a sensor in innate immunity. Its activation controls the production of pro-inflammatory ...

This is particularly evident in “cold tumors,” which lack infiltration or activation of anti ... employ a different branch of the immune system called innate immunity that can help overcome ...

What's interesting about this discovery is that the vegan diet appears to strengthen the body's first line of defense - the ...

In addition, allergenicity may also depend on the capacity of allergens to bind lipids or to activate the innate immune system through signaling pathways of PRR, such as Toll-like receptors (TLRs ...

"What was striking was that the innate immune system, which includes the inflammasome, has a role beyond infection," said Julie Magarian Blander, the Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of ...