Frontiers

Innate immune defences in respiratory virus-host interactions and their implications for therapy

Background:Respiratory viruses, including influenza viruses, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), coronaviruses, and other emerging zoonotic pathogens, remain ...
Medical Xpress

Your immune system attacks drugs like it does viruses, paradoxically offering a way to improve cancer treatment

When the first cells appeared on Earth approximately 3.8 billion years ago, viruses were already here to greet them. Ever since, viruses have been devising ways to infect cells, and cells have been ...
New Scientist

Good immune health may come at the expense of chronic inflammation

Having a robust enough immune system to live a longer life may come at the cost of chronic inflammation. Some immune cells undergo an inflammatory form of death that evolved to protect us from ...
The Conversation

Your immune system attacks drugs like it does viruses – paradoxically offering a way to improve cancer treatment

Tom Anchordoquy receives funding for this work from the Nationals Institutes of Health through grant # RO1 CA289447. When the first cells appeared on Earth approximately 3.8 billion years ago, viruses ...