Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 28 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41577-026-01275-5A preprint by El-Daher et al. describes an interferonopathy-associated mutation in the chromatin remodeller ATRX, which identifies an unexpecte…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 27 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41577-026-01274-6A preprint by Villazala-Merino et al. shows that allergen-specific memory B cells must re-enter germinal centres to differentiate into IgE-prod…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 23 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41577-026-01266-6JAK inhibitors are typically used to suppress the immune system but have also been shown to enhance antitumour and antiviral immune responses. …
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 21 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01262-2In this Review, Martín-Cófreces, Calzada-Fraile and Sánchez-Madrid describe the bidirectional communication that occurs at immune synapses, foc…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 21 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01262-2In this Review, Martín-Cófreces, Calzada-Fraile and Sánchez-Madrid describe the bidirectional communication that occurs at immune synapses, foc…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 19 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41577-026-01272-8A new study shows that inflammation spreads from psoriatic skin to joint disease through the migration of skin myeloid precursors to the joints…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 16 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41577-026-01271-9Respiratory viral infections can weaken the immune system and carry a risk of severe bacterial secondary infections. A research article in Scie…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 15 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01254-2RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) considerably expand the information content of the genome and can determine the lifespan, localization and function…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 14 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41577-026-01267-5A study by Liu et al. identifies GPX4 as an immunosuppressive mediator released by ferroptotic tumour cells that inhibits the antitumour response.
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 12 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41577-026-01270-wSerum albumin binds and prevents the oxidation of free fatty acids, which then prevent the expression of virulence factors in Mucorales fungi.
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 12 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41577-026-01265-7A preprint by Zhu et al. shows that protease allergens induce neural hypersensitivity by activating mTORC1 signalling in sensory neurons.
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 12 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01258-yCertain metabolites in the tumour microenvironment signal between tumour cells and infiltrating immune cells. Here, the authors discuss how met…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 09 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41577-026-01264-8A preprint by McCarron et al. investigates immunodominance hierarchies in response to cancer vaccines targeting neoantigens.
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 09 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01255-1Here, Becher and colleagues examine the paradoxical roles of IL-12 and IL-23, two IL-12 family cytokines that drive type 1 and type 3 immune re…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 07 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01248-0This Review describes leukocyte migration through various types of extracellular matrix (ECM) during inflammation, as well as the changes to th…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 06 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01250-6T helper 17 (TH17) cells can have both pro-tumour and antitumour effects. Understanding how they are regulated by environmental and regulatory …
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 05 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01239-1Ubiquitination tags proteins for proteasomal degradation but can also orchestrate the assembly of intracellular signalling platforms and direct…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 02 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01249-zThis Review from Turk and Huang discusses the immune processes involved in the development of vitiligo, an autoimmune disease in which melanocy…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 02 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01263-1A preprint by Boulat et al. reports that tumour-derived lactate blocks B cell migration from cancer-associated lymph nodes, preventing the form…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 15 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01261-3Publisher Correction: Fifty years of monoclonals: the past, present and future of antibody therapeutics
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 09 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01257-zRespiratory infections in early life combine with genetic and maternal factors to drive asthma development in childhood.
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 09 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01260-4Besides killing infected or transformed cells, interferon-activated natural killer cells can kill T follicular helper cells and may contribute…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 08 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01259-xA preprint by Breuer et al. reports that type I IFN signalling in tumour cells promotes lymph node metastasis but suppresses metastasis to dis…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 02 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01256-0A study in Nature reports that heterotypic T cell clusters identifed in clinical samples of melanoma metastases are biologically relevant to t…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 26 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01253-3A preprint by Bockman et al. reports a cDC2-CD4+ T cell axis that mediates local tumour control after ablation of intratumoral Treg cells, wit…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 26 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01251-5A preprint by Zhijie et al. identifies somatic mutations in TYK2 that are enriched in tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes and associated with an i…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 26 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01252-4A preprint by Liu et al. shows proof-of-concept for a treatment for autoimmune diseases such as SLE using synthetic immune receptor T cells th…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 18 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01238-2This Consensus Statement clarifies the existing subset-based nomenclature for T cells. Furthermore, it proposes an alternative modular nomencl…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 18 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01246-2This poster provides an overview of the current subset-based nomenclature for T cells and a newly proposed modular nomenclature for T cells. I…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 14 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01245-3Short-chain fatty acids generated by the gut microbiota can support T cell ‘stemness’ and lead to improved cancer immunotherapy outcomes.
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 13 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01237-3In this Review, the authors consider a long-standing immunological conundrum — why do neutrophils have a segmented nucleus? They discuss the m…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 11 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01243-5A preprint by Rivera et al. explores how retroelement expression establishes a tolerogenic environment towards food antigens in the gut, shedd…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 11 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01241-7A preprint by Sadiku et al. characterizes neutrophil diversity in glioblastoma using a new workflow for single-cell proteomic profiling.
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 11 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01247-1A preprint by Guo et al. reports a mechanism of transcriptional control of RORγt expression in intestinal antigen-presenting cells that are im…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 11 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01240-8A preprint by Srinivasan et al. describes the role of the gut microbiota and serum amyloid A in regulating retinoid flux that is important for…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 06 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01242-6Lipid transport regulates activation of intestinal T helper 17 cells and thereby limits dietary fat absorption and diet-induced weight gain.
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 05 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01244-4Sanchez-Garcia et al. report that systemic hypoxia-induced epigenetic reprogramming of neutrophil progenitors in the bone marrow reduces their…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 31 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01231-9In this Review, Li and Underhill discuss recent advances in understanding the process of phagocytosis. The authors highlight how phagocytosis i…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 28 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01230-wThis Perspective presents a framework of ‘structural immunity’ that positions immune cells as architects of tissue structure. Beyond their role…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 16 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01226-6As more spaceflight missions plan to take humans back to the moon — and beyond — a key goal is to understand how spaceflight affects the immune…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 14 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01229-3The tumour microenvironment (TME) poses a significant obstacle to the success of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell immunotherapy in solid …
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 09 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01223-9In this Review, the authors discuss the latest advances in our understanding of organelle biology in T cell-mediated antitumour immunity and ho…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 08 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01233-7Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is associated with CD4+ T cells that are specific for the C9orf72 autoantigen and preferentially produce IL-4, IL…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 07 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01234-6Depending on context and concentration, the polyamine cadaverine can promote pro- or anti-inflammatory macrophage polarizations.
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 07 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01236-4A proteotoxic stress response specific to exhausted T cells represents a target for cancer immunotherapy.
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 07 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01235-5Group 2 innate lymphoid cells are crucial for maintaining nerve structure and pain thresholds.
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 06 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01227-5This Review explains how an improved understanding of immune and nervous system interactions in the central nervous system (CNS) has guided the…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 03 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01232-8A study in Science Immunology reports that regulatory T cells in the skin modulate neuronal tone directly through their production of the opioi…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 01 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01221-xHere, Sun and Dong describe the many signals from stimulatory and inhibitory molecules as well as by microenvironmental factors, such as cytoki…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 22 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01228-4Many patients with cancer who could potentially benefit from treatment with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells do not have access to thi…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 22 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01222-wNeoadjuvant (chemo)immunotherapy has become a new standard-of-care option for patients with cancer. This Perspective discusses the lessons le…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 12 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01215-9Despite the advances in hepatitis C treatment, a prophylactic vaccine is still not available and will be needed to control and eliminate hepa…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 10 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01214-wThe actin cytoskeleton is essential for immune cell shape, signalling and function. In this Review, the authors examine how germ-line mutatio…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 08 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01219-5Functional and metabolic properties of innate-like T cells — namely, iNKT cells, MAIT cells and some γδ T cells — differ from those of conven…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 03 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01218-6The dual nature of non-polymorphic MHC-E as a ligand for innate receptors and as an antigen-presenting protein raises the possibility of new,…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 01 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01225-7Populations of regulatory KIR+CD8+ T cells expand during pregnancy and can promote maternal tolerance to the developing fetus.
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 01 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01224-8B cells that expand following infection with EBV can colonize the brain, where they recruit activated T cells that have potential to cause ne…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 29 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01220-yA study by Bhattarai et al. in Nature Immunology reports that ILC3-to-ILC1 plasticity in the gut is regulated by circadian clock proteins.
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 14 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01211-zTumour-associated blood vessels are abnormal in structure and function, and this can limit immune cell infiltration into tumours and contribute …
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 08 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01208-8Effective tumour-specific T cell immunity — and the success of cancer immunotherapies — relies on the presentation of antigens via human leukocy…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 07 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01207-9Fifty years ago, Köhler and Milstein introduced the world to hybridoma technology for the generation of monoclonal antibodies. Scientists have s…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 29 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01206-wModification of the nucleotide pool is emerging as key to innate immunity in animals, plants and bacteria. This Review explains how immune pathway…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 28 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01217-7Exercise promotes changes in the gut microbiota that enhance anti-tumour T cell responses.
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 24 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01203-zThis Review by Poirier highlights the intrinsic mechanisms that protect stem cells from infection. The author also explains how stem cell populati…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 24 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01212-yIn this Tools of the Trade article, Qisi Zhang and Longlong Si describe a method for generating live attenuated vaccines that involves targeting v…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 23 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01216-8A recent preprint by Floyd et al. presents the most comprehensive mapping to date of the human lymphocyte ‘surfaceome’.
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 22 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01200-2Endometritis can cause infertility and recurrent pregnancy loss and is an important medical and veterinary issue. Here, Nash and Giles provide an …
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 17 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01213-xA preprint by Wu et al. identifies BRD4 as a sensor of pH, with notable implications for the regulation of inflammatory genes.
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 10 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01199-6Here, Swirski and colleagues explore how the nervous and immune systems connect and collaborate to respond to internal and external stimuli. In pa…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 07 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01209-7The antitumoural effects of BCG can be vastly improved by combining it with β-glucan. The combination therapy enhances granulopoiesis and trains n…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 07 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01210-0A preprint by McCaffrey and Delmastro et al. delineates distinct immunometabolic zones of tuberculosis granulomas and reports that hypoxia is a ke…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 01 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01204-yA preprint by Han et al. reports that tumour cells acquire iron in the bone marrow through phenotypic mimicry of erythroblasts, which promotes met…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 30 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01205-xMaternal obesity during pregnancy promotes a form of fatty liver disease in offspring that is dependent on HIF1α-mediated rewiring of Kupffer cell…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 27 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01187-wThe vasculature that forms in tumours and supports tumour growth is abnormal and limits T cell entry into tumours. Here, the authors review how th…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 26 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01185-yIn this Review the authors explain how different routes of exposure to food antigens can contribute to the development of food allergies. They dis…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 25 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01202-0A preprint by Srivastava et al. reports that C19S modification of insulin, which occurs in response to a stressed microenvironment, promotes pro-i…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 24 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01201-1White et al. show that microbiota-specific T cells are licensed by gut inflammation to infiltrate the central nervous system, where cross-reactivi…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 18 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01191-0During pregnancy, innate immune mechanisms at the maternal–fetal interface are important for protecting the developing fetus from pathogens. Howev…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 16 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01193-yIron is crucial for cellular metabolism, but its availability varies greatly within and between individuals and populations. This Review highlight…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 13 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01192-zT cells have an essential role in immune responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but the mechanisms by which they may provide protective immunity…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 12 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01188-9This Perspective explores how the gut microbiota influences the function and heterogeneity of microglia, highlighting their roles in neurological …
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 12 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01198-7A preprint by Li et al. presents a comprehensive pan-cancer atlas of tumour-specific peptides that markedly expands the known tumour antigen reper…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 12 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01197-8A preprint by Cortez et al. explores how IL-25 produced in response to helminth infection in mice rewires intestinal ILC2s to retain a ‘memory’ of…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 04 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01186-xMacrophages are crucial regulators of fibrosis. Here the authors describe how distinct subsets of monocytes and macrophages cooperate with fibrobl…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 02 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01194-xA preprint by Ellul et al. reports that maternal immune activation of mice imprints regulatory T cell dysfunction in offsping that drives autism-l…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 30 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01196-9A study describes how maternal immune activation can lead to neurodevelopmental deficits in offspring, through a mechanism involving granzyme B rel…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 29 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01195-wFive recent papers identify the RORγt+ antigen-presenting cells that induce food-antigen-specific regulatory T cells and establish food tolerance.
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 27 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01181-2Pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) are typically associated with innate immune activation, but there is an emerging subset of inhibitory pattern …
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 27 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01190-1Diverse microbial exposures in early life reduce the risk of inflammatory conditions, including allergies and autoimmunity. Emerging data suggest t…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 21 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01189-8A preprint by Cheng et al. identifies the proton-activated chloride channel PAC as a negative regulator of phagosomal acidification in macrophages.
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 16 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01174-1In vivo chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) engineering has emerged as a promising off-the-shelf therapeutic approach for hard-to-treat diseases such a…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 07 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01184-zShruti Naik, an immunologist and a strong advocate for diversity in science, has joined forces with Aaron Mertz, who leads programmes that help to …
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 06 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01183-0In this Tools of the Trade article, Sina Djafari Rouhani and Mohammad Rashidian describe CD45-PET for whole-body imaging of immune activity and dyn…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 06 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01182-1A preprint by Raposo et al. shows that immune checkpoint blockade drives the expansion of certain clones of exhausted T cells that can develop into…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 02 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01175-0In this Perspective, Smyth and Kipnis reappraise the concept of immune privilege in the central nervous system. Although immune privilege was origi…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 01 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01173-2Cytotoxic T lymphocytes and natural killer cells destroy target cells using a mechanically active cytolytic immune synapse. This Review examines th…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 29 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01179-wTwo new studies describe populations of neurons in distinct brain regions that respond to IL-17 family cytokines and IL-10 to regulate social and…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 29 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01172-3In this Perspective, Feuerer and colleagues consider how transposable elements (TEs) — which are mobile nucleic acid sequences in the genome — ca…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 28 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01180-3Microglia are not confined to the central nervous system but are also present in the periphery, wrapped around large neuronal somas of humans and…
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 23 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41577-025-01162-5In this Review, Male and Jones provide an overview of the current vaccines that are offered during pregnancy and to newborns, explaining the rati…