A growing body of research has identified a hidden immune defect, not written in DNA, that helps explain why certain people ...

Bonn, November 8, 2022 - The innate immune system fights infectious agents. The alarm messenger interferon plays a central role in this. However, if it is produced in the absence of an infection, it ...

A new study shows that about two percent of the population develop autoantibodies against type 1 interferons, mostly later in life. This makes individuals more susceptible to viral diseases like COVID ...

A new study shows that about two percent of the population develop autoantibodies against type 1 interferons, mostly later in life. This makes individuals more susceptible to viral diseases like COVID ...

Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, have discovered that immune cells known as macrophages remain ...

An immune system defect makes affected individuals vulnerable to severe viral diseases such as influenza or COVID-19. It is caused by the body's own antibodies, which inhibit important defense ...

When pathogens attack the body, the innate immune system goes to work protecting against the invading disease. The innate immune system is the first line of defense. It detects precisely what the ...

Question: I have been prescribed a drug called Intron A for chronic hepatitis C and I don't understand how it works. My physician tells me I can't go without it, but until I learn how it works, I ...

In 2020, Ashley Harms, Ph.D., and University of Alabama at Birmingham colleagues published an Acta Neuropathologica study that used a mouse model to show that the alpha-synuclein pathology from ...