adaptive immunity

Males recovered from mild COVID-19 have baseline immune states primed to mount stronger responses to future challenges.

Researchers find signatures pre- and post-vaccination that correlate with a more robust immune response. 

Deletions in the sleepy lizard genome leave it without an important type of T cells found in most other vertebrates.

The Northwestern University researcher studies how adaptive immune cells influence neurodegenerative disease.

Mix-and-match shots could simplify vaccine rollout and stimulate more-robust immune responses. Ongoing clinical trials will soon give answers.

The rare complication known as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) differs from both Kawasaki disease and severe adult cases of COVID-19, a study finds.

Scientists are examining the role of T cells, which are likely crucial for long-term protection against SARS-CoV-2.

A rogue hybrid lymphocyte, bearing characteristics of both B and T cells, may play a role in driving autoimmunity in the disease, although the mechanism is far from clear.

Human natural killer cells, previously considered not to participate in adaptive immunity, remember viral antigens after initial exposures, according to a new study.

The transcriptional regulator dampens the immune system’s ability to elicit an antitumor response, a study shows.

The immune system tolerates the colonization of commensal bacteria on the skin with the aid of regulatory T cells during the first few weeks of life, a mouse study shows.

When influenza invades the mouse respiratory tract, neutrophils guide the subsequent T-cell attack on infected tissue, scientists show.  

Researchers find evidence that measles vaccines reduced deaths from other infectious diseases due to “immune amnesia.”