Researchers are gaining insights into how external factors like air pollutants, diet and medications, and even microbes in the gut interact with regulatory T cells, for better or for worse.
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Regulatory T cells help your immune system distinguish between ‘self’ and ‘nonself’ – and can open doors to better treatments for cancer, autoimmune disease and transplant rejection.
A new study created a detailed map of how plants respond to cues in the world around them.
As it does with other pathogens, your immune system sees drugs as foreign invaders to be expelled from your body. But exploiting this process could reduce the side effects of chemotherapy.
Considering how easily bird flu swept through chicken farms, it’s clear that domestication has downsides. Lessons from the past paired with modern genomic technology can help with farming insects.
SARS-CoV-2 and some other viruses trigger “zombie cells” that can create a mix of symptoms seen in long-COVID.
Some studies indicate children with pets may be less likely to have allergies. But the evidence can be tricky to interpret.
Just as infection signals imbalance in Western medicine, in te ao Māori it indicates a deeper disharmony that requires restoring the relationships that sustain life.
Not only do mitochondria serve as the engine of the cell – they also act as watchtowers for the immune system.
This small organ in our intestines plays a major role in regulating gut microbiome.
The beloved actor says she will be receiving the best treatment available for the stage 4 cancer.
Researchers have been trying to answer this question for many years. Here’s what we know so far.
From sending more pollen airborne to breaking up pollen grains, which lets them penetrate deeper into your lungs, the wind is not the allergy sufferer’s friend.
An allergic reaction happens when your immune system overreacts to something that should be harmless. Whether that happens can be thanks to your genes, your environment or a combination.
If these findings are confirmed in humans, it could have implications for treating many diseases where the immune system becomes overactive.
Complications from measles infection are surprisingly common.
Wildfires can unleash hidden health threats, including promoting the spread of infections.
It’s essential to embrace nature – dirt and all.
Changes to the bacterial balance in the mouth can trigger inflammation and other harmful effects in the body.
Increasing clinical evidence links changes in the composition of the gut microbiome to the development of various skin diseases such as eczema.
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Professor in Immunology, University of Manchester
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Instructor of Human Immunology, Emory University
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Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor: Innovation and Knowledge Exchange, University of Nottingham
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Ecologist and Researcher, Flinders University
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Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina
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Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Immunology, Imperial College London
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Research associate, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Brown University
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Senior Research Fellow; Rheumatology Research Group, Centre for Inflammatory Diseases, Monash University
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Lecturer, Biochemistry & Immunology, Swansea University
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Honorary Associate Professor
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Associate Professor of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz
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Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina
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Principal Scientist and Canada Research Chair in Zoonotic Virus and Animal Reservoirs at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization and Co-Lead of One Health at the University of Saskatchewan, University of Saskatchewan