Why are some people more prone to infection?

Why are some people more likely to face infection? An expert explains what influences immune response and how to boost your immunity.

Yale • futurity
Oct. 8, 2024 ~3 min

COVID could protect you from severe flu

New research in mice finds that having recovered from COVID had a protective effect against the worst effects of the flu.

Rockefeller University • futurity
Oct. 1, 2024 ~9 min


How does cancer hide from the immune system?

New research shows that one particular lipid type is critical for cancer immune evasion.

Katherine Fenz-Rockefeller • futurity
Sept. 26, 2024 ~7 min

Immune cells can turn into pro-cancer traitors

New research digs into the underlying factors that cause the harmful transformation of immune cells from good to bad.

U. Rochester-URMC • futurity
Sept. 12, 2024 ~4 min

Discovery points to potential new breast cancer therapy target

New research identifies a potential new immune system target to head off the spread of breast cancer cells.

Johns Hopkins University • futurity
Sept. 9, 2024 ~7 min

Long COVID inflicts deep scars on the lungs, but targeting specific immune cells could reverse damage − new research in mice

Researchers developed a new mouse model that replicates long COVID-19 more accurately than current models. Their findings could lead to new treatments.

Harish Narasimhan, Ph.D. Candidate in Immunology, University of Virginia • conversation
Sept. 4, 2024 ~5 min

TB discovery may upend ideas about the immune system

New findings on tuberculosis could change how we treat inflammatory disorders, researchers say.

Katherine Fenz-Rockefeller • futurity
Sept. 3, 2024 ~8 min

New evidence sheds light on one of long COVID’s drivers

"We believe this is a big step forward in trying to understand and provide treatment to patients with this subset of Long COVID."

Yale • futurity
July 29, 2024 ~10 min


Republicans wary of Republicans – how politics became a clue about infection risk during the pandemic

Reactions like disgust are part of the behavioral immune system that helps you avoid disease. Usually conservatives are more fearful of contamination – but something unusual happened during COVID-19.

Steven Neuberg, Foundation Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University • conversation
July 18, 2024 ~5 min

Tweak makes ‘natural killer cells’ more effective against cancer

Natural killer cells hold promise for treating cancer. Now, researchers have found a way to overcome their main limitation.

Yale • futurity
July 12, 2024 ~6 min

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