The immune system must be able to quickly attack invaders like viruses, while also ignoring harmless stimuli, or allergies ...

Food allergies are slowly increasing within first world countries. According to the National Institute of Allergy and ...

Antibodies are best known for their ability to latch onto and neutralize bacteria, viruses and other pathogens. But these ...

The immune system serves as the body’s defense network ... By studying mice, the researchers identified tolerogenic dendritic cells – a type of immune cell that presents antigens on their surface for ...

A protein identified nearly 40 years ago for its ability to stimulate the production of red blood cells plays a surprising, ...

New research zeroes in on a unique group of immune cells that could transform how we treat—and possibly prevent—severe food ...

Fred Hutch and MSK researchers showed that tumors driven by hiccups in RNA processing can't hid from the immune system. In ...

A new study has revealed that a special group of cells in the intestines tamp down the immune responses caused by exposure to food proteins. Called 'tolerogenic dendritic cells,' these cells enable ...

How the system achieves the latter has been unclear ... the researchers concluded that they are a type of immune cell called a dendritic cell. Typically, dendritic cells present tiny fragments ...