When viruses invade a plant, you might expect an all-out immune war. But new research published in Science shows that, much like in humans, too strong an immune response can actually do more harm than ...

A new study shows how person-to-person variation in antibody immunity plays a key role in shaping which influenza (flu) strains dominate in a population. A new study has shown that person-to-person ...

Researchers have found that vitamin D encourages the growth of a type of gut bacteria in mice which improves immunity to cancer. Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute, the National Cancer ...