"Who are you?" This question, in its many variations, is almost inevitable in school applications, job interviews or introspective moments. We spend years, perhaps our entire lives, unraveling the ...

To counteract these challenges, novel strategies aim to restore the cancer immunity cycle. One approach involves directly injecting unadjuvanted influenza vaccines or drug-loaded oncolytic viruses ...

The cell categories are commonly known as non-professional APCs. APCs load foreign antigen-derived peptides onto MHC II, which then present peptide–MHC II complexes to CD4 + T cells (8–11). It is ...

Antigen processing and presentation is the mechanism by which whole antigens are degraded and loaded onto MHC molecules for display on the cell surface for recognition by T cells. Both macrophages ...

With every bite of food we take, our intestinal immune system must make a big decision. Tasked with defending us from foreign ...

The commensal microbiota is known to contribute to IgA production in the gut; however, the role of dietary antigens in IgA production is poorly understood. To understand the effect of dietary antigens ...

immunogenic and immunodominant peptides in foreign pathogens. While static structures can provide insight into T cell receptor (TCR) antigen specificity, this often fails and auxiliary information ...

The U.S. spent less on foreign aid in 2023 than it did the year prior – but it still allocated more cash, adjusting for inflation, than at any other time since the 1950s, according to data ...

A collaboration between the Ragon Institute and the Jameel Clinic at MIT has achieved a significant milestone in leveraging ...

CFR Experts Answer Your Questions on Trump and Foreign Policy The return of President-Elect Donald Trump has thrown the future of U.S. global leadership into doubt. CFR experts answer your ...

Many governments, companies and other entities pay foreign agents to influence U.S. policy and opinion in pursuit of those interests. Get the full picture of who is lobbying government officials.