When the body encounters infection or cancer, cytotoxic T lymphocytes attach to the affected cell and form the immune synapse ...
Cancer immunotherapy is built on a simple but powerful idea: the immune system can recognize and destroy cancer cells if it is properly activated. In many patients, however, this response is too weak ...
T cells, which target infection and disease, can become more effective after a meal. The finding might help improve ...
A woman walks into a clinic for a routine blood draw. Weeks later, a lab report flags something unexpected: the immune cells ...
Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine have uncovered a previously unknown way the immune system fights cancer — and the ...
The first clinical trial to test the tumour-fighting power of a stem-cell-like class of long-lived immune cells suggests that ...
Yale researchers have identified CD8+ T cells as a key driver of kidney damage in lupus, challenging the long-standing focus on B cells. The discovery may explain why some patients do not respond to ...
When the immune system overreacts and starts attacking the body, the only option may be to shut the entire system down and risk developing infections or cancer. But now, scientists at UC San Francisco ...
Researchers at Hannover Medical School (MHH) have developed a method for the efficient production of human immune cells, such ...
People with hard-to-treat asthma often have to use medicines such as systemic steroids that broadly suppress the immune ...