There’s a frustrating fact about today’s immunotherapies for cancer. While sometimes they work beautifully -; completely eliminating or greatly reducing cancer in particular patients -; other times...
In chronic hepatitis B, the liver contains immune cells that could destroy hepatitis B virus infected cells but are inactive. A team from the Technical University...
Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have taken a leap forward in understanding how we might fight back against the potentially deadly MRSA bacterium. They have shown in...
A multinational team led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators developed a test that will help measure the persistence of HIV in people affected by viral strains...
Multiple myeloma is one of the most common forms of cancer of the immune cells in the bone marrow. It is considered incurable. Even when patients...
In a recent study published in Immunology, researchers investigated populations of regulatory T cells (Treg), a type of white blood cell, in various tissues. Study: The...
In a new study, neuroscience researchers at The Ohio State University have discovered a special type of human white blood cell that has the potential to...
Even though COVID-19 manifests as a mild and short-lived disease in most people, some suffer extremely severe symptoms; in the worst cases, these patients die due...
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that an attenuated (weakened) virus can help eliminate cancer in mice. In addition, mice that were treated with this virus were...
A recent study published in Nature Immunology demostrates that durable asthma remission can be achieved with engineered and long-lived chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell treatment in...
A new study led by investigators from Mass General Cancer Center, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, reveals that statins-;commonly used cholesterol-lowering...
A recent study published in the journal Science Immunology reported that heart failure (HF) promotes multimorbidity. Despite medical advances, HF mortality is considerably high. Repeated hospitalization...