This week's issue of the journal Immunity reports on the findings of Scientists from UCLA and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences who have uncovered how the immune system launches its survival response to Bacillus anthracis.[more]

A surprising finding in a study comparing hepatitis C virus (HCV) with hepatitis A virus (HAV) infections in chimpanzees has shed new light on the nature of the body's immune response to these viruses.[more]

Antigen-presenting cells (APCs) are critical for both innate and adaptive immunity.[more]

Recent reports of Plasmodium vivax infections, the most widely distributed species of human malaria, show that this parasite is evolving and adapting, becoming not only more aggressive but also more frequent in countries where it was not present in the past.[more]

Rhinovirus (RV), a single-stranded RNA picornavirus, is the most frequent cause of acute respiratory tract infection in humans and has emerged as the most frequent pathogen associated with exacerbations of asthma.[more]

The long-standing quest for the development of vaccines that confer protection against highly mutable viruses such as HIV, hepatitis C, and influenza has elicited numerous structural and functional studies on virus-neutralizing human antibodies. [more]

Percutaneous treatment (PT) emerged in the mid-1980s as an alternative to surgery for selected cases of abdominal cystic echinococcosis (CE).[more]