Your immune system harbors a lifetime's worth of information about threats it's encountered - a biological Rolodex of baddies. Often the perpetrators are viruses and bacteria you've conquered; others ...
Most cells evolve slowly, accumulating incremental changes that better suit their environments. Immune cells, because they must adapt rapidly to counter new threats, evolve much more quickly. Part of ...
Fighting off pathogens is a tour de force that must happen with speed and precision. A team of researchers at CeMM and MedUni Vienna led by Christoph Bock and Matthias Farlik has investigated how ...