In this interview, News Medical speaks with Olivier Negre, Chief Scientific Officer at Smart Immune, about how immunotherapy ...

Did you know there's a small gland in your chest, often called the "thymus" or the "happiness gland," that plays a crucial ...

Our immune systems develop to recognize what is foreign within our bodies. As immune cells are generated in the bone marrow ...

During infections, the immune system needs to distinguish foreign antigens that are expressed by invading bacteria and ...

The staggering diversity of T-cell antigen receptor recognition derives from an ingenious genetic ploy: small DNA snippets in thymocytes—nascent T cells undergoing differentiation in the thymus ...

T cells are white blood cells that are important for adaptive immunity. They have unique cell surface receptors that are generated by randomly assorting genes. These receptors allow T cells to ...

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A team of international researchers led by scientists at City of Hope, one of the largest and most advanced cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States, with its National Medical ...

New research shows how a specially trained population of immune cells keeps the peace by preventing other immune cells from attacking their own. The study provides a better understanding of immune ...