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Stéphanie Longut, while passing through Paris, meets with Arthur, more tormented but also more enthusiastic than ever. Stéphanie tells him all about her fundamental research in the field of immunology and its potential pharmaceutical applications.

By pairing an intimate knowledge of immune-system function with a deep understanding of statistical physics, a cross-disciplinary team has arrived at a surprising finding: T cells use a movement strategy to track down parasites that is similar to strategies that predators use to hunt their prey.

In a study of sticklebacks, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön have now shown that reoccurring infectious diseases determine which individuals produce a particularly large number of offspring in a population

Professor Rashika El Ridi (Egypt. Cairo), 2010 laureate of the L’Oréal-UNESCO program For Women in Science, is well aware of the great advances in immunology that have made her own research

The Physiology/Medicine Nobel 2011 shall be divided, with one half jointly to Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity and the other half to Ralph M. Steinman for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity

Research suggests that everyday germs may prevent diseases in adulthood.

Are "elite controllers" the key to understanding HIV infection—and do their immune systems offer a new approach to developing an AIDS vaccine?

The bowel disease, thought to be caused by an over-exuberant immune system, may paradoxically be triggered by immune cells not doing enough in the early stages of bacterial infection.

Infectious disease experts designed a machine called the hemopurifier. It works much like a dialysis machine, using thin fibers to capture and remove viruses from the blood it filters. Article with a video.