When your social media account starts spewing out nonsensical or threatening status updates, it's safe to assume that it has ...

I formulated the missing-self hypothesis for natural killer (NK) cell recognition in the autumn ... in vitro versus in vivo grown, virus infected versus uninfected, untreated versus interferon ...

Bacteria steal DNA from silent viruses and use it like a memory bank. That memory helps them protect future generations.

Cell death comes in many forms, depending on the trigger. During human embryonic development, for example, cells that make up the webbing between the fingers will undergo an orderly self ...

"Zika virus inhibits any kind of productive dendritic cell response," says Carlin ... of infection from a variety of flaviviruses that attack dendritic cells from different angles.

They say these low-cost, high-impact viruses are showing promise in clinical trials – there are around 60 currently under way ...

"Zika virus inhibits any kind of productive dendritic cell response," says Carlin. "We think that's a key to its pathogenesis ...

In many cases, an antigen is a bacterium, fungus, virus, toxin ... Others attract more T cells or cell-eating phagocytes. Killer T cells (cytotoxic T lymphocytes) attack other cells.

A new cancer therapy utilising a genetically modified herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) offers hope for late-stage patients ...

Afterwards, he developed near-fatal GVHD, which occurs when donor immune cells attack the recipient. As first reported in 2008 ... CCR5 can act as a co-receptor (a second receptor binding site) for ...