A defense system that cannot distinguish friend from stranger eventually harms the organization it is supposed to protect.

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In the modern professional landscape, the conventional image of a leader as a decisive hero with all the answers is changing. The complexity of today’s organizational challenges—ranging from global ...

The complement system bridges innate and adaptive immunity, orchestrating immune surveillance and maintaining tissue homeostasis. This review summarizes the role of the complement system in ...

The immune system is the frontline protection against infection, continually searching for and destroying unknown pathogens. While typical operation of the immune system scans for threats, some ...

We sometimes hear about the benefits of “boosting” our immune system, but what we really want to do is support our immune system on an ongoing basis. People often think of the immune system as ...

T cell activation—the process by which these key immune defenders recognize threats and mobilize against them—depends on exquisitely timed molecular signals. Now researchers have captured one of the ...

You contain multitudes. Within you there are billions of defenders, ready to protect your health from threats arising both outside and inside your body. This is your immune system, and it consists of ...

Researchers found an antibody that seems to play a role in people with better lung cancer prognoses, but turning it into a treatment could be difficult. By Gina Kolata Is there a way to use the body’s ...

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In 2019 I wrote about research suggesting anti-inflammatory medications might help some people with major depression. At the time, the idea that depression could have roots in the immune system felt ...