During an antibody response, sites of massive cell death arise in the germinal centers of lymph nodes. One of the macrophage cell types, tingible body macrophages (TBMs), help with apoptotic cell ...

image: The image is of a fungal cell. It was made using a special microscope called a scanning laser confocal microscope. The different colors are a result of three different lasers which excite ...

A team of scientists from Australia and Israel demonstrates that Candida auris, a fungus associated with life-threatening and drug-resistant infections, escapes the host's innate immune response by ...

Macrophages—or “big eaters”—are exactly what they sound like. These immune cells roam our bodies hunting down infections, cancers, or injuries. When they detect a target, the cells release a calvary ...

Researchers headed by a team at the University of Southern California (USC) reported positive data from preclinical in vivo studies evaluating an experimental protein-free vaccine that is designed to ...