Immune cells called B cells make antibodies that fight off invading bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances. During ...

Immune cells called B cells make antibodies that fight off invading bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances. During ...

A multinational collaboration co-led by the Garvan Institute of Medical Research has uncovered a potential explanation for why some cancer patients receiving a type of immunotherapy called checkpoint ...

In recent years, the field of immunology has increasingly focused on the role of glycolipids and sphingolipids in the differentiation and function of innate immune cells, such as macrophages, ...

However, details of the intervening steps, as researchers have learned in the past 65 years, are quite complex — certain cells carry the flu antigen to the immune system, specific immune cells respond ...

Until now, doctors knew hepatic stellate cells mainly as drivers of liver fibrosis. The actual functions of this cell type have hardly been studied to date. Researchers have now determined that ...

Background Withdrawal of prolonged nucleos(t)ide analogue (NA) treatment results in hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) loss in some subjects with chronic hepatitis B (CHB), potentially revealing ...

Stage 4 diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a rapidly growing lymphoma affecting at least one other organ outside the lymphatic system. Cancer is the unusual growth and spread of cells within the ...