Cancer treatment has long been haunted by the same problem: how do you strike dangerous cells without hitting healthy ones nearby? A team at the University of Geneva has built a drug-delivery system ...

There is a constant war going on in your body. Working against you are viruses and cancer cells growing uncontrollably, ...

A research team from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have discovered how the ...

Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California (USC) have developed a new type of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell that elicits a more controlled immune response ...

A copper-based agent complex kills cancer cells in a novel way. It receives its activation signal through light. It could help where existing chemotherapy treatments reach their limits. Cuproptosis ...

We owe a lot to tissue resident memory T cells (T RM). These specialized immune cells are among the body's first responders to disease. Pandurangan Vijayanand, M.D., Ph.D., William K. Bowes ...

A therapy that has revolutionised how we treat blood and skin cancers could become even more effective. Making cancer cells stiffer bolstered the effects of immunotherapy, when the immune system is ...

Over the last decade, the cellular cancer immunotherapy known as CAR T-cell therapy has roared to the rescue of many blood cancer patients. The engineered immune cells revolutionized treatment of ...