To fight off viral and bacterial invaders, immune cells known as lymphocytes generate antibodies that specifically recognize and bind to these invaders, neutralizing them directly or marking them for ...

Our immune system finds it difficult to eliminate tumours effectively. Deciphering the strategies it implements may increase the immune system's effect on tumour cells and thus improve the clinical ...

In our February issue, Steven Reiner describes how lymphocytes make use of a highly unusual type of division to create two different kinds of cells: effector and memory. Here, you can see this ...