NIHilist's Immunology

1. "weaning reaction" is described as a #physiological CD4+ T cell response to to #microbiota +solid #foods in mouse pups that...

Multiple sclerosis  (MS) is a debilitating autoimmune disease affecting nervous system. Several auto-antigens have been traditionally suspe...

Here is a paradox for you that many don't even know that it exists: frequently, genetic immunodeficiency (weak immune response) syndrom...

There is a renewed interest in gut microbiota research. Initially, this revival of microbiota studies came from observations that obese an...

This is a second paper in this series ( microbiota and immunotherapy ). This study came from Thomas Gajewski's lab. It showed that canc...

Recently two back-to-back papers in Science Express received much media attention. These studies claim that gut microbial flora influence ...

Our knowledge of the role of gut microbiome in human health and disease is expanding on a daily basis. For example, just few days ago j...

Foxp3 transcription factor drives development of specialized CD4 T cell subset called regulatory T cells (Tregs) which can protect against ...

More than 30 years since its discovery and there is still no FDA licensed HIV vaccine . It is not even entirely clear if the failure to dev...

The major advances in fundamental immunology for the past 25 years have to do with major advances in artificial manipulations of gene expre...

This is a second paper in IFN-lambda series . This new paper published in journal Science provided additional confirmation to the earlier ...

This is a very interesting study from journal Nature. It comes from the famous  Jeffrey Gordon's lab at the Washington University Scho...