While we tend to quickly forget having been ill or having received a vaccine, the immune system remembers remarkably well. It ...

Immune cells not only remember viruses, but can also secrete tumor-fighting antibodies, say Weizmann Institute researchers; ...

New research from Northwestern Medicine reveals how post-menopausal hormone shifts can weaken the brain’s memory networks.

For decades, dogma dictated that the immune system consisted of two separate branches. Cells of the innate system respond rapidly to molecular patterns shared by a broad array of pathogens. Meanwhile, ...

A preclinical mouse study in Immunity suggests that aged circulating CD8+ T cells can disrupt hippocampal function and impair ...

However, details of the intervening steps, as researchers have learned in the past 65 years, are quite complex — certain cells carry the flu antigen to the immune system, specific immune cells respond ...

Investigators led by Navdeep Chandel, Ph.D., the David W. Cugell, MD, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, have discovered how the metabolism of mitochondria supports ...

Researchers have shown for the first time that malfunctioning mitochondria — the cell’s energy generators — may directly ...