For decades, dogma dictated that the immune system consisted of two separate branches. Cells of the innate system respond rapidly to molecular patterns shared by a broad array of pathogens. Meanwhile, ...

Memory T cells are a special type of white blood cell that "remember" past infections and vaccines, helping our bodies to quickly respond if we encounter the same germs again. These cells are found ...

T naive cells (T N), T central memory cells (T CM), T stem cell-like memory cells (T SCM), T effector memory cells (T EM), T transitional memory cells (T TM), T effector memory cell re-expressing ...

However, details of the intervening steps, as researchers have learned in the past 65 years, are quite complex — certain cells carry the flu antigen to the immune system, specific immune cells respond ...

Memories can form outside of the brain, according to new research. Non-brain cells exposed to chemical pulses similar to the ones that brain cells are exposed to when presented with new information ...

There are two fundamentally different cell types in the brain, neurons and glial cells. The latter, for example, insulate the 'wiring' of nerve cells or guarantee optimal working conditions for them.

A study led by A*STAR’s Infectious Diseases Labs (A*STAR ID Labs) has identified an immune cell population—known as memory B cells—that is associated with a reduced risk of COVID-19 vaccine ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers evaluated memory B and T cell responses to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) before and after the ...

Researchers at the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...