Immune System

HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, can hide in resting cells, thereby creating a reservoir of itself in cells of individuals who are being treated ...

Two years ago on Dec. 12, a group of people were infected and sickened from a virus that had never been known to infect humans. ...

Tumors must evade the immune system to grow and spread, causing cancer. One of the ways tumor cells hide is by displaying proteins that tell ...

In a new publication, Mayo researchers and collaborators report a previously unknown interaction between adenovirus vectored vaccines and a protein released by platelets that may ...

COVID-19 pills may limit severe disease, but vaccination is still the best option.Over the past two months, data on two pills to treat COVID-19 became ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have linked the T cell disfunction seen in rheumatoid arthritis with a metabolic deficiency, according to a new publication in Nature Immunology. ...

When it comes to the immune system, attention seems to focus on its protection. But equally important is how the unleashed immune response becomes a ...

Mayo Clinic researchers and collaborators report that persistent lung changes after COVID-19 in patients over 60 may be linked to specific populations of T cells. ...

In a recent paper, scientists from Mayo Clinic and Salk Institute for Biological Studies, identify a new approach to boosting the action of steroids. As ...

In the years since AIDS was first described in medical research, the scientific map of that disease has changed enormously. Once it was relatively empty. ...