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Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School, in collaboration with researchers in Nepal, have found that waning immunity to Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) may increase the risk of more severe dengue ...

Pre-existing immunity against seasonal H1N1 flu might help explain why most reported human cases of H5N1 bird flu in the U.S. have not resulted in lethal outcomes, suggests a new study by University ...

Once an era arrives where cancer can be treated through immunity, cancer will no longer be a fearsome disease but an ordinary ...

Mammalian immunity has long been thought to rely solely on proteins and specialized immune cells. However, a newly proposed concept—RNA immunity—is reshaping this perspective. In a recent publication ...

Hai-Hui "Howard" Xue, Ph.D., of the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI) have shown how a critical pathway is fundamental to the immune system, in a new papers in the journal ...

Herd immunity occurs when enough people in a group are immune to a specific infection that it cannot spread easily from person to person. Vaccination programs have been successful in creating herd ...