Your acquired or adaptive immunity is more developed over time as you're exposed to different infections, viruses, or vaccinations. If you have a weakened immune system, you become more likely to ...

The first known case of HIV-1 infection in human was detected in 1959, from a blood sample of a man in Kinshasa, Democratic ...

Discover how psychoneuroimmunology transforms trauma therapy by addressing the immune system's role in health, regulation, ...

Lymphoid stem cells, which originate in the bone marrow, give rise to the various components of the acquired immune system. Secondary lymphoid tissue is "peripheral" tissue that provides an ...

Researchers found that newborn immune cells regenerate heart tissue by producing thromboxane. Mimicking this process in ...

Broadly there are two parts of the immune system: the innate response and the acquired response. The innate response judges friend from foe. It reacts to a problem by trying to flush out or burn ...

One of the immune system's primary roles is to detect and kill cells that have acquired cancerous mutations. However, some early-stage cancer cells manage to evade this surveillance and develop ...

Working with an international team, researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have discovered that the ...

Somatic diversification of receptors is one of many molecular mechanisms that evolved to support the clonally dependent vertebrate adaptive immune system. The cell types and cell communication ...