This finding could change how we think about the virus and how we treat it. The mystery of COVID-19, blood clots and immune escape When COVID-19 first emerged, most people focused on its impact on the ...

The virus often mutates by simply deleting small pieces of its genetic code. The mutations "disguise" the virus from ...

Even when a person has recovered from Ebola and his or her blood is Ebola-free, the virus can linger in the body. It can remain in semen for months after the initial infection. Late last year, it was ...

Unfortunately for us, successful infectious agents and tumors have developed such “adroit maneuvers”, which they use to escape immune responses and maximize their probability of being ...

This work “implies that there’s a lot more potential for a pathogen to escape our immune responses than we had previously thought,” says Christopher LaRock, an immunologist at Emory University School ...

Chinese scientists have revealed a hidden metabolic partnership between breast cancer cells and immune cells that drives aggressive tumor behavior and resistance to immunotherapies. The study sheds ...

Many of the cells in the innate immune system produce cytokines or interact with other cells directly to activate the adaptive immune system. In cancer cells, mutations can lead to expression of tumor ...