"Who are you?" This question, in its many variations, is almost inevitable in school applications, job interviews or introspective moments. We spend years, perhaps our entire lives, unraveling the ...

Innate immunity is an immunological subsystem that comprises the cells and mechanisms that provide the first line of defence from infection in a non-specific manner. Innate immune responses are ...

The Supreme Court over the summer issued an opinion in which a 6-3 conservative majority ruled that presidents have absolute immunity for actions that fall within the core responsibilities of ...

Joe Biden called for the creation of a new constitutional amendment that would reverse the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential ‘immunity’ (Getty Images) The Supreme Court’s decision ...

A study from the University of Cambridge reveals innate sex differences in newborns’ brains, with males displaying larger overall volumes and more white matter, while females have more grey matter, ...

Because the virus evolves so rapidly, having it once doesn’t provide much long-term immunity. And it also doesn’t help that there’s not a vaccine for norovirus yet. People with Type O blood ...

Antibodies are produced by the adaptive immune system but they work alongside the innate immune system to assist it. An analogy for antigens is that they are biological signposts or QR codes. They ...

The immune system is responsible for protecting the body from disease. And while it's usually effective, everyone is susceptible to illnesses from time to time. However, there are things you can do to ...

Hello, and welcome back to Everyday Science. This week, there is increasing attention on a surge of pneumonia cases in China. If anyone is worried that this sounds like the start of the Covid ...