There are two paths of the adaptive immune response: the humoral response that uses antibodies, and the cell-mediated response which uses cytotoxic T cells. Antibodies are small Y shaped proteins that ...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday that Canada will hit back at the U.S. if President Donald Trump goes ahead with punishing tariffs on Feb. 1, promising this country will respond in ...

Depending on the antigen, IgG can either tag a pathogen so other immune cells and proteins will recognize it, or it can activate the complement system to directly destroy the microorganism. IgG can ...

The study, which is published in the journal Cell, reveals significant differences between the immune response of children and adults, and has the potential to lead to new tailored treatments for ...

The current understanding of humoral immune response in cancer patients suggests that tumors may be infiltrated with diffuse B cells of extra-tumoral origin or develop organized lymphoid structures, ...

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Cigarette smoking is known to impair the immune system's response to infections and promote inflammation in the lungs that can lead to or exacerbate COPD, the third leading cause of death worldwide.

President Biden on Wednesday said there should be an amendment to the Constitution that makes clear presidents are not immune from crimes committed in office, using his farewell address in part to ...

“We need to amend the Constitution to make clear that no president, no president, is immune from crimes he or she commits while in office,” he said in remarks from the Oval Office on Wednesday.

Trained immunity (TI) is the process wherein innate immune cells gain functional memory upon exposure to specific ligands or pathogens, leading to augmented inflammatory responses and pathogen ...

1The Precision Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York. 2Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.