Virologist Rúbens Alves, Ph.D., came to La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) to contribute to life-saving vaccine research. As a member of LJI’s Shresta Lab, Alves studied how T cells fight viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 (which causes COVID-19) and deng…
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute, in collaboration with Revolution Medicines, have tested a combination of treatments in mice with lung cancer and shown that these allow immunotherapies to target non-responsive tumors.
The eye is an immune-privileged tissue because of the need to keep blood vessels away from the central pathway of light and to restrict entry of inflammatory cells that could cause damage. This has prompted questions about how the eye manages inflammat…
Our immune system spans two worlds—innate and adaptive. Innate immune cells are like troops at the gate ready to hold off invaders and raise the body’s alarms. Adaptive immune cells are specialists that take longer to respond but can fight off foes in …
Melanoma is a dangerous form of skin cancer that has the potential to spread to other parts of the body.
Systemic sclerosis is an autoimmune disease that primarily causes inflammation of the skin, as well as internal organs such as the lungs and heart. It is considered a rare disease, and little is yet known about its development and progression.
Harnessing the body’s B-cells to fight tumors may be a promising treatment for glioblastoma, according to a Northwestern Medicine study recently published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Monash University researchers have developed a new technique to boost the effectiveness of both traditional and mRNA-based vaccines in animal models.
A new study led by King’s College London, Imperial College London and the University of Edinburgh, has characterized the similarities and differences between immune cell profiles in children with different infections and inflammatory diseases.
Fever temperatures rev up immune cell metabolism, proliferation and activity, but they also—in a particular subset of T cells—cause mitochondrial stress, DNA damage and cell death, Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers have discovered.
