The innate immune system employs inflammasomes—intracellular multiprotein platforms—to detect microbial motifs and danger signals, triggering rapid inflammatory responses. Upon sensing perturbations ...

All cellular life—from humans to bacteria—possesses two layers of immunity: innate and adaptive. Scientists have long understood how these two types of immunity work together in higher organisms but ...

Dozens of new discoveries reveal that defenses evolved by bacteria and viruses billions of years ago still define our own innate immune system. Evolutionary arms races — where one species is pitted ...