Every time our body encounters a new disease-causing agent, a crucial defense system called adaptive immunity comes into play ...

Plants are continuously evolving new immune receptors to ever-changing pathogens. Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) have traced the origin and evolutionary ...

Pathogens can create sticky situations. When microbes invade the body to cause an infection, often one of their first lines ...

A sugar on mycobacteria binds to the immune receptor dectin-1 on host macrophages, helping the bacteria survive and driving ...

Scientists identified an ancient protein that helps plants detect pathogens, with swap-outs enabling defense against bacteria, fungi, and insects. (Nanowerk News) Researchers led by Ken Shirasu at the ...

(Nanowerk News) Modern agriculture uses enormous quantities of pesticides and fungicides, which can negatively impact the environment and people. Finding ways to boost the immune responses of plants ...

New research shows how small shifts in the molecular makeup of a virus can profoundly alter its fate. These shifts could turn a deadly pathogen into a harmless bug or supercharge a relatively benign ...

Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are important for vertebrate recognition of pathogen-associated molecular forms. The receptor TLR9 is involved in the recognition of bacterial DNA by virtue of its ...

Plants are continuously evolving new immune receptors to ever-changing pathogens. Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) have traced the origin and evolutionary ...