A team has identified a previously unknown phase of the immune response. The results challenge long-standing assumptions about the process called 'T-cell priming'. These new insights have significant ...

Plants mobilize their immune defenses far earlier than scientists have believed for decades—and through a previously ...

Simply being exposed to a sick avatar in a virtual reality environment is enough to trigger a measurable immune response in humans. This is what a multidisciplinary research team from the CHUV and the ...

Pain-sensing neurons in the gut kindle inflammatory immune responses that cause allergies and asthma, according to a new ...

Researchers have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that regulates the immune response against parasites. During a parasitic infection, specific immune cells, known as virtual memory T cells ...