Millions of people worldwide carry viral infections they acquired at birth, often for life. For a long time it was assumed ...

A historical review in Vaccine warns that global H2N2 immunity has sharply declined since the 1957 Asian influenza pandemic, ...

Cancer cells can disarm the immune system not just by hiding from it, but by actively reprogramming nearby immune cells into a suppressed state. This previously unrecognized molecular interaction, ...

An epidemiologist weighs in.

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Dozens of new discoveries reveal that defenses evolved by bacteria and viruses billions of years ago still define our own ...

A nearly COVID-free summer has long been the goal of public health officials who are striving to get enough people vaccinated by then to achieve so-called herd immunity. But is that a realistic goal? ...

People who live with obesity are 'tagging' a memory of being overweight on a key part of the immune system - leaving people ...

Immunity passports would threaten our privacy and information security, and would be a significant step toward a system of national digital identification that could be used to collect and store our ...

Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that plays several key roles in your body. These six fish can serve as excellent sources ...