While we tend to quickly forget having been ill or having received a vaccine, the immune system remembers remarkably well. It ...

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

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

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

The most common cancer-causing strain of human papillomavirus (HPV), HPV16, undermines the body's defenses by reprogramming immune cells surrounding the tumor, according to new research from the Keck ...

CAR T-cell therapy is considered a milestone in personalized cancer treatment. In this approach, a patient's own immune cells ...

Scientists at McGill University have found a way to supercharge the immune system’s natural killer (NK) cells, helping them break through the defenses tumors use to stay alive. By temporarily blocking ...

UCLA researchers gave T cells a protected supply of sugar, allowing them to attack solid tumors more effectively.

CAR-T cell therapy is already a potent treatment for certain cancers. Now, a small study is showing early promise for ...

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 ...

A CANCER jab available on the NHS can melt away tumours when patients have run out of options, a trial found. Triple-action injection amivantamab works by blocking a growth protein and an enzyme ...