Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A “complete eradication” of B cells with chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy is responsible for the ...

Immune cells called B cells make antibodies that fight off invading bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances. During their preparation for this battle, B cells transiently revert to a more ...

Researchers have uncovered a critical, previously underappreciated role for B cells in vaccine protection. Best known for producing antibodies, B cells also guide other immune cells, specifically CD8 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Learning from 2 decades of off-label rituximab use in systemic lupus erythematosus may point the way toward ...

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infected and reprogrammed autoreactive B cells in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) to become activated antigen-presenting cells. EBV-infected B cells in ...

The structures contain immune cells -- predominantly B cells -- and patients with the structures tend to have better outcomes. While doing her graduate work in Pitt's Program in Microbiology and ...

However, details of the intervening steps, as researchers have learned in the past 65 years, are quite complex — certain cells carry the flu antigen to the immune system, specific immune cells respond ...