Serendipitous observations have shaped science for centuries. What happens to such discoveries when the academic atmosphere leaves no room for detours?

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 ...

Scientists have discovered that pregnancy may trigger a natural immunity to boost protection against severe flu infection. Contrary to the common belief that pregnancy increases vulnerability to ...

A new study analyzing the immune response to COVID-19 in a Catalan cohort of health workers sheds light on an important question: does it matter whether a person was first infected or first vaccinated ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Recently, Dr. Yuese Ning and colleagues at the Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (IPPCAAS) published a paper in Science Bulletin entitled “Pyramiding basal ...