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That’s because our body doesn’t make enough of the stuff in the darker months as sunlight decreases. Vitamin D is key to ...

A component of the human interferon system that activates SARS-CoV-2 cellular defenses appears to be defective in a proportion of humans, new research reports. COVID-19 outcomes were more severe in ...

Researchers across the planet are racing to harness one of our immune system’s front-line defenders as an early treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus that has killed more than ...

Researchers from the University of Surrey in the UK found that taking vitamin D2 can cause reduced levels of vitamin D3 in ...

Scale” model spotted a drug combination that made tumors more visible to the immune system, a breakthrough Google calls “a ...

Bonn, November 8, 2022 - The innate immune system fights infectious agents. The alarm messenger interferon plays a central role in this. However, if it is produced in the absence of an infection, it ...

Google's open-source AI model has developed a potential therapy for cancer by suggesting new drug candidates, including ...

Researchers have discovered that Type I interferon (IFN) plays a key role in helping the immune system effectively target viruses, while stopping white blood cells from 'going rogue' and attacking the ...

The paper E.N. Judd et al., “Positive natural selection in primate genes of the type I interferon response,” BMC Ecol Evol, 21:65, 2021. In humans, one of the host cell’s first lines of defense ...