What makes cancer an especially insidious disease is its ability to evade your own body’s defenses. Tumors have a host of ...

For the past 15 years or so, a class of drugs called immune checkpoint inhibitors have been used to treat melanoma – the most ...

Scientists at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have captured, for the first time, 'housekeeping' immune cells ...

Natural killer cells are supposed to be the immune system’s first responders against cancer. They don’t need to be trained on ...

Megan Sweet slices tumors. A normal day in the lab finds the Virginia Tech graduate student with hands deep inside a refrigerated metal box, pulling a mounted mouse-grown tumor incrementally closer to ...

One of the key areas of scientific study in recent times includes the use of stem cell research in space. Scientists are ...

Scientists at UCLA have developed an "off-the-shelf" cell-based immunotherapy that was able to track down and kill pancreatic cancer cells even after they had spread to other organs. In a mouse study, ...

Researchers found that lowering MHC I can expose cancerous or foreign cells to CD4+ T cell attack, reshaping assumptions ...

Over a month ago, I was on Instagram when I saw a video of a scientist who said, “They put the blood of people exercising on ...

Since scientists first discovered that human immune cells could be modified to become cancer-fighting agents, they’ve been trying to engineer a cell that’s effective against solid tumors, which ...

Cancer cells are known for their “glutamine addiction,” but many can escape this weakness by switching to alternative fuels. Researchers found that vitamin B7 acts like a metabolic “license,” enabling ...

Scientists have discovered a sugar compound from deep-sea bacteria that can destroy cancer cells in a dramatic way. This natural substance, produced by microbes living in the ocean, causes cancer ...