Respiratory viruses continue to place significant pressure on communities and healthcare services each winter. For Professor ...

University of Queensland researchers have found that an experimental histone deacetylase 6 inhibitor can help immune cells to ...

New research from Imperial College London suggests that infection with the influenza virus may leave people more susceptible ...

When a rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of the common cold, infects the lining of our nasal passages, our cells work together to fight the virus by triggering an arsenal of antiviral defenses. In a ...

They also analyzed airway gene expression to see how recent viral infections influenced the body's antiviral defenses. Children were found to have higher baseline expression of interferon-related ...

Bacteria encode hundreds of defence systems that sense and restrict bacteriophage (phage) infection 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8. Bioinformatic analyses of recently identified defence systems reveal that >10% of ...

New research shows that eosinophils, immune cells usually linked to allergies, also play a protective role against Candida infections by using the CD48 receptor to recognize the fungus and release ...

Regulated cell death is crucial in counteracting intracellular infection, removing unneeded cells and maintaining homeostasis 1. Since the discovery of the first regulated cell death pathway—apoptosis ...

As adenovirus spreads alongside seasonal flu this winter, health experts are urging renewed caution. The virus, which circulates year-round, is often mistaken for flu because it causes fever, sore ...

New research shows that eosinophils, immune cells usually linked to allergies, also play a protective role against Candida infections by using the CD48 receptor to recognize the fungus and release ...

Low oxygen levels in the blood can alter the genetic makeup of key immune cells, weakening the body’s ability to fight infection, new research shows. Scientists found that oxygen deprivation – known ...

Vaccines have traditionally worked by teaching the immune system to recognise a specific virus or bacterium – in effect, showing it a wanted poster for a single suspect. But what if one vaccine could ...