The majority of children do not need a tonsillectomy.” But when done for the right reasons, tonsillectomy offers a meaningful and quality of life boost. “We have very happy families who often will say ...

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The immune cell repertoire is composed of many different cell types that are orchestrated in response to infection and other ...

An enzyme expressed by skin cells could be helpful in the management of non-healing skin wounds and ulcers, according to ...

Lymphoid-derived conventional dendritic cells (L-cDCs) may play a unique function associated with immune suppression and ...

New research from the University of Pittsburgh reveals how the immune system defends against intestinal parasitic worms, or helminths, one of the most common infections worldwide in communities with ...

Lymphoid-derived conventional dendritic cells (L-cDCs) may play a unique function associated with immune suppression and ...

Not only do mitochondria serve as the engine of the cell – they also act as watchtowers for the immune system.

In fighting chronic infections or certain cancers, CD8+ T cells-the immune system's frontline soldiers-eventually become ...

Both adaptive and innate immune memory responses have been described in gamma delta T cells, yet the mechanisms, the ligands and the gamma delta T cell subsets generating memory responses have remain ...

PD-1 treatment may help by shifting certain immune cells to fight diseases like kidney cancer; higher CD163-positive TAMs are linked to better outcomes.