At the surface, the immune response to a flu virus is simple. Some cells recognize the pathogen and send a signal to the ...

Titer tests are what's used "to help you determine if you currently have immunity to certain diseases due to past infection or vaccination,” says Dr. Alison Mitzner, a New York board-certified ...

A team at Scripps Research has created a microchip that can rapidly reveal how a person's antibodies respond to viruses using only a drop of blood. This game-changing technology, called mEM, condenses ...

Sepsis is a critical issue in the field of infectious diseases and immunology, posing a significant challenge to global health due to its high morbidity and ...

The researchers discovered that STING, an immune molecule meant to protect the brain, may actually be making things worse as ...

Although deaths from cancer have gone down over the last couple decades, the disease remains one of the leading causes of death in the United States, just as it has for the last 75 years, according to ...

The Epstein-Barr virus is one of the most common and persistent human viruses in the world, according to the CDC.

Most people don’t think about the spleen when they get vaccinated, but this small organ plays a key role in the immune system. Located under the ribcage on the left ...

The herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), which affects almost two-thirds ... which uses the body's own immune system to fight ...

The filoviruses Ebola and Marburg use several different and effective mechanisms to both evade and battle the immune system. This Review explores recent findings in the filovirus–host-defence ...

Scientists found that a genetically engineered herpes simplex virus, when combined with immunotherapy, reduced or eliminated tumors.