Introduction Patients with SLE have an increased risk of infections and infection-related mortality, which may be associated ...

Chronic and viral infections can literally exhaust certain key cells in the immune system from a constant barrage of attacks.

The ability of immune cells—particularly CD8 + T cells—to launch a rapid burst of proliferation inside tumors is key to the success of modern day cancer immunotherapies. However, the factors and ...

Building upon a deep understanding of immune cell activation, researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) developed a new artificial platform that can be used to induce T cell ...

A mouse study reveals how aging immune cells may impair memory outside the brain, showing that blocking CD8+ T cell activity or their secreted factor, granzyme K, helped restore cognitive performance ...

T cells are specialized immune cells responsible for identifying and targeting infections. When the body experiences ...