Viruses have been attacking living organisms for billions of years, long before humans first appeared on Earth. Yet one of the biggest questions in biology has remained remarkably difficult to answer: ...

The COVID-19 pandemic showed the challenges of protecting populations when a new respiratory virus emerges. Although vaccines ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute, King's College London and Complutense University of Madrid have shown that γδ T ...

New research in Nature shows that gamma delta T cells rely on their adaptive T cell receptors in real time to mount rapid, ...

Fagniez I, Tsumura M, Guérin A, Abolhassani H, Sharafian S, Mesdaghi M, Nishimura T, Lashkari HP, Rao S, Richards S, Han JE, Delmonte OM, Kergaravat C, Markle JG ...

Unlike transient innate immune activation, trained immunity is characterized by long-lasting but reversible functional reprogramming of monocytes, macrophages, natural killer (NK) cells, and ...

Malaria remains one of the world’s most stubborn infectious diseases, and the vaccines designed to stop it still fall short ...

A preclinical study published in Myeloid Cells reports that AS01, a vaccine adjuvant system, can induce trained immunity in human monocytes and reduce tumour growth in selected mouse cancer models.