Antibodies, which recognize viruses and proteins that the body has encountered before, have long gotten most of the credit ...

Macrophages serve as the Swiss army knives of the innate immune system, switching between phenotypes to perform different functions in response to the surrounding environment. One of their key ...

Initially mistaken for neutrophils, a population of atypical macrophages appears in the lungs after severe viral infection, orchestrates tissue repair, and then vanishes. Rebecca Roberts is a science ...

A research team led by Prof. Zeng Zhutian from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has identified and ...

These cells deal with microbes and repair tissue damage. Two main sub-types of immune cells are T cells and macrophages. T cells are designed to recognise the molecular signatures of particular ...