Cancer cells can disarm the immune system not just by hiding from it, but by actively reprogramming nearby immune cells into a suppressed state. This previously unrecognized molecular interaction, ...

Cancer immunotherapy is built on a simple but powerful idea: the immune system can recognize and destroy cancer cells if it ...

The first clinical trial to test the tumour-fighting power of a stem-cell-like class of long-lived immune cells suggests that ...

Scientists want to know what causes B cells — which direct T cells to attack cancer — to malfunction and how they can be ...

When the body encounters infection or cancer, cytotoxic T lymphocytes attach to the affected cell and form the immune synapse ...

Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine have uncovered a previously unknown way the immune system fights cancer — and the ...

A surprising backup system in the immune response to mRNA vaccines may hold the key to more effective cancer treatments.

Founder Patrick Soon-Shiong said the company’s AI-powered immune cell manufacturing robot is already in production. ・The “world’s first” NK-cell manufacturing robot uses AI and machine learning to ...

Pancreatic cancer’s deadliest trait may be its ability to stay invisible — and researchers in Rochester say they are ...

Lymph nodes, hundreds of small structures located throughout the body, play a pivotal role in immunity, including anti-tumor immune responses. White blood cells, also known as lymphocytes, reside in ...

Allogeneic, or “off-the-shelf,” cell therapies promise something different: one donor’s cells banked and shipped on demand to ...

Researchers have found that microglia in Alzheimer’s patients carry cancer-associated mutations, some also present in blood cells, suggesting these altered immune cells may infiltrate the brain and ...