Our immune system works to fight infections immediately, but also maintain long-term immunity. Two waves of protection help neutralize and eliminate disease, including the innate and adaptive immune ...

Viral infections remain a significant global health challenge, as exemplified by recent pandemics. The complexity of virus-host interplay poses major ...

Germinal centers are high-speed evolution machines. Tiny clusters in the lymph nodes, germinal centers refine antibodies through mutation and expansion until they produce high-affinity B cells adapted ...

In a recent perspective review, researchers attempt to collate and discuss scientific knowledge on the concept of the ‘immune self’ and use raw T cell assays, nine amino-long pathogen-derived peptides ...

Your immune system is your body’s built-in defense network, working nonstop to protect you from bacteria, viruses, and other harmful invaders. Your immune system includes two main parts: the innate ...

Venue: Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems Organizer: Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems Understanding how the immune system exerts its protective function ...

A comparison between a healthy brain (left) and a brain severely affected by Alzheimer’s disease (right). Alzheimer’s leads to significant shrinkage and loss of brain tissue, reflecting the damage ...