The department of biology hosted a University of Florida professor at an Oct. 5 seminar, where he discussed nutritional immunity as a method to combat bacterial infections. José Lemos, associate ...

DMBT1 is a multifunctional secreted protein that plays a pivotal role in the body’s first line of defence across mucosal surfaces. Characterised by its scavenger receptor cysteine-rich (SRCR) domains, ...

Pre-existing immunity against seasonal H1N1 flu might help explain why most reported human cases of H5N1 bird flu in the U.S. have not resulted in lethal outcomes, suggests a new study by University ...

Antitumor immunotherapy has notched big wins, but in a small proportion of patients. And one possible explanation for why is that approved immunotherapies are not yet planting their flag on most of ...

Scientists have pinpointed a small molecule that appears to reverse key signs of immune aging in laboratory models, raising the prospect of drugs that could keep our defenses against infection ...

Regulatory T cells are a type of white blood cell that can help identify and repair damaged tissues. It's been thought that various tissues hold specific populations of T cells that remain there to ...