Israel Institute of Technology Faculty of Biology have identified a unique mechanism involved in the aging of the immune ...

CD8+ T cells - known as "killer" T cells - are the assassins of the immune system. Once they are primed, they seek out and destroy other cells that are infected with virus or cells that are cancerous.

Priming involves dendritic cells — sentinels of the immune system. In an influenza infection in the lungs, for example, lung-migratory dendritic cells capture a piece of the viral antigen, and then ...

Memory T cells are a special type of white blood cell that "remember" past infections and vaccines, helping our bodies to ...

Researchers have designed a microfluidic device, or 'spleen-on-a-chip,' that can model how the spleen's filters become clogged by sickled red blood cells, leading to a life-threatening condition known ...

Healthy human red blood cells (RBCs) gradually degrade over their lifespan of ~120 days. However, sickle cells - RBCs from sickle cell disease (SCD) patients - degrade much faster within their ...

Explore the fascinating world of the human body in this animated educational video. Discover the roles of essential organs ...

CD8+ T cells -- known as "killer" T cells -- are the assassins of the immune system. Once they are primed, they seek out and destroy other cells that are infected with virus or cells that are ...