immunology

Leveraging the same mRNA platform used for covid vaccines, researchers generated a vaccine that prevents mice from acquiring Lyme disease.

When their in vitro and in vivo results conflicted, researchers took a deep dive into microRNAs’ influence on T cell memory formation.

Some elements of human immune systems serve important functions beyond fighting infections.

Diet-derived molecules spur a biological mechanism in the lung barriers of mice that prevents viral lung injury.

Natalie Knox and the Public Health Agency of Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory are helping establish a national qPCR-driven wastewater surveillance network for SARS-CoV-2 and other diseases.

Spectral flow cytometry separates similarly emitting fluorophores and enabled Kaitlyn Sadtler to construct a 24-color rat panel for immunological analyses.

Editing epitopes expressed on the surfaces of transplanted hematopoietic stem cells renders them resistant to AML treatments without affecting their critical functions.

Spatial methods reveal immune cell formations in fat during early obesity.

An often overlooked property of the tumor environment shapes T cell function and may improve T cell therapies.

Vaginal dysbiosis has long been a taboo subject, but studying and optimizing the vaginal microbiome could be a game changer for women's health.

What underlies the uneven burden of autoimmunity between the sexes has remained a mystery. Now, scientists found clues by turning to a key player on the X chromosome.

In the fight between hosts and fungal pathogens, scientists discovered how withholding manganese can cripple Candida albicans.

We have barely scratched the surface of itch science and what it indicates about our health.

Timothy Hand leads a research team that explores how maternal immune signals shape the infant intestinal microbiota.