The unified picture derives from viewing the innate immune system as a potential 'network' that can distinguish between 'friend' (commensal bacteria) and 'foe' (pathogenic bacteria). Although ...

My research—and in fact my entire career—focuses on one of the fundamental questions of immunology: how the innate immune system’s sensory functions tell self from non-self, such as ...

How chronic activation of the innate immune system can lead to cancer The newer paper, led by first author Hexiao Wang, Ph.D.

Now, researchers from Penn's School of Dental Medicine and international collaborators have investigated the effects of ...

Researchers have shown that innate immune training, also known as trained immunity (TRIM), leads to aggravated bone loss in experimental models of periodontitis and inflammatory arthritis.