The number of exposures to the coronavirus spike protein, through infection or vaccination, influences the degree of antibody response. Credit: Veesler Lab People vaccinated three…
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Immunofluorescent image depicting T cells (blue) attacking tumor cells (white) by forming an immune synapse with LFA-1 (open headpiece conformation – labeled in red). A…
Researcher preparing SARS-CoV-2 samples for testing in BSL-3 Core Facility at NUS Medicine. Credit: NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Study found that an…
A team from UNSW’s Kirby Institute and St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney have uncovered an immune profile for long COVID, potentially paving the way for tailored…
From our first breath, our lungs are exposed to microorganisms, such as bacteria and viruses. Thanks to immune cells in the lungs, so-called macrophages, we…
Cedars-Sinai Investigators Found Evidence of an Overactive Immune Response. Infection with the virus that causes COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019…
Shots trigger exceptional antibody response by activating key helper immune cells. The first two vaccines created with mRNA vaccine technology — the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna…
UT Health San Antonio researchers compared results in less-severe and severe COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious…
The Omicron variant has been confirmed in all continents except Antarctica. Omicron, the first COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)…
Coronin 1 promotes long-term survival of the T cells of our immune system. Credit: Nano Imaging Lab SNI/Biozentrum, University of Basel They are at the…
This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2— the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S. Virus particles are shown emerging from the…
The Ad5-nCoV vaccine, developed in China, is 57.5% effective against symptomatic COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious…
Daniel Streblow, Ph.D., holds a plate of plasma samples that contain COVID-19 antibodies, to be evaluated in OHSUs in-house COVID-19 testing lab. Researchers have been…
Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (gold) within endosomes of a heavily infected nasal Olfactory Epithelial Cell. Credit: NIAID A growing body of scientific…
Artistic rendering of a tumor growing within a colon, resulting in local alterations of resident microbiota. Credit: Sarah Field Sonnenberg An immune cell subset called…
Understanding how much protection a vaccine offers is not as simple as it sounds. The pandemic has brought many tricky terms and ideas from epidemiology…
With a healthy immune system, infection causes CD4+ follicular T cells (blue) and immature B cells (red), two types of white blood cell, to form…
Microscope image showing a human cell (pink) heavily infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (green and purple). Credit: NIAID/NIH Researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad…
Symptoms resembling Parkinson’s disease are a cautionary finding in CAR-T cell treatment for multiple myeloma. Mount Sinai scientists have become the first to report a…
The emergence of COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus…