This groundbreaking discovery opens up new opportunities to study the role of host-fungus interactions in intestinal immunity ...

The commensal T cells are unusual because they perform functions that counteract each other. "Normally tissues contain two ...

Growing evidence implicates these commensal microorganisms in conditions that affect other organs such as the lungs, brain, ...

A team has discovered a new communication pathway between the gut and lung. Their findings highlight how a little-known member of the gut microbiome reshapes the lung immune environment to have both ...

A team led by University of Toronto researchers has discovered a new communication pathway between the gut and lung. Their ...

"For years we've been looking for a true fungal commensal in mice, but fungal populations in lab mice, as identified by analyzing fungal DNA, tend to be transient and vary greatly from colony to ...

Demehri, MD, PhD, of the Department of Dermatology and Center for Cancer Immunology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the ...