SARS-CoV-2 has an enzyme that can counteract a cell's innate defense mechanism against viruses, explaining why it is more infectious than the previous SARS and MERS-causing viruses. The discovery may ...

Innate lymphoid cells, which curiously behave like T cells even though they don’t recognize specific antigens, show promise as a potential cancer therapeutic. In the years that followed, other groups ...

Along with defending against pathogens, the body's innate immune system helps to protect the stability of our genomes in unexpected ways -- ways that have important implications for the development of ...

Along with defending against pathogens, the body's innate immune system helps to protect the stability of our genomes in ...

When the first cells appeared on Earth approximately 3.8 billion years ago, viruses were already here to greet them. 1 Ever since, viruses have been devising ways to infect cells, and cells have been ...