On the skin, millions of microbial colonists quietly coexist with their host as microscopic allies that help maintain health ...

While its colour and texture make it look like one of the grossest productions of our body, it is actually proof that your ...

Mucosal immunity, which protects vulnerable surfaces like the respiratory and digestive tracts, shows remarkable preservation with age. ... How to support your aging immune system effectively.

This could offer a potential new way to train the mucosal immune system to help protect against chronic inflammatory diseases such as type 2 diabetes and obesity.

The adenovirus is packaged into an oral vaccine, which is much easier to administer than an injection, and it can train the mucosal immune system directly. The protection rate is still rather low ...

With every bite of food we take, our intestinal immune system must make a big decision. Tasked with defending us from foreign pathogens, these exquisitely sensitive cells somehow distinguish ...

NSC51349 selectively inhibits cutaneous HPV replication by targeting viral E2 activity, potentially paving the way for first ...

W hen a pathogen enters the body and begins multiplying, the immune system has to respond with haste. However, adaptive immune cells—so-named because they can recognize, respond to, and remember ...

These attenuated vectors still posed safety concerns for people with compromised immune systems, though, and early virally-vectored vaccines demonstrated a risk of Bell’s Palsy, a type of facial ...