The cells of the immune system are the guardians of these organisms – able to distinguish friend from foe and self from nonself. To accomplish this task in an organism with perhaps trillions of cells, ...

New research finds reduced ELOVL2 enzyme activity speeds up immune cell aging and disrupts genes linked to cancer.

its importance as a first level of protective immunity and its role in triggering antigen-specific responses by the adaptive immune system. Perhaps if we could work out the evolutionary history of ...

New research suggests that decreased activity of ELOVL2 -- a key enzyme in lipid metabolism -- accelerates white blood cell aging and alters genes associated with the onset of blood cancers.

The immune system is a 'cat's cradle' of networks operating ... The core group of the project comprises seven immunology and three computational biology laboratories (Fig. 1).

The immune system must be able to quickly attack invaders like viruses, while also ignoring harmless stimuli, or allergies ...

A major new initiative, launched on 15 April, will map how gene activity shapes the immune system, and could help identify new therapeutic targets for conditions such as Inflammatory Bowel Disease ...