In 2010, a milestone was achieved when the first patient with cancer was treated with CAR-T-cell therapy ... decided to add the CAR gene to natural killer (NK) cells. “These cells are part ...

These tiny terminators, called natural killer (NK) cells ... When faced with attacking NK cells, cancer cell don’t sit idly by. “We know there are ways that the tumour cells can sort of ...

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh have developed a new way to grow T cells in the lab that enables them to live longer and better destroy cancer cells in a mouse model of melanoma compared ...

Creating cancer ... shelf cancer cell therapy given the difficulties the US system is having with the newly approved CAR-T therapies. Companies are also trying to develop natural killer-based ...

Immunotherapy uses a patient's own cancer-fighting cells, or T-cells, and adapts them so that they do a better job at killing cancer cells. T-cells are excellent at identifying and attacking tumor ...

Tr1 cells were found to be a heretofore unrecognized obstacle to immunotherapy's effectiveness against cancer ... T cells, another immune cell type, that recruit and expand additional killer ...

In mice infected by a particular virus, killer T cells trigger the wasting of fat tissue and body weight, although how they do so is still unclear. The findings were published on Monday (May 20) in ...

Natural killer ... cancer and virus-infected cells, are not always effective, particularly when it comes to fighting tumors. Now, research in mice points to a possible reason: when NK cells “bite off” ...

showed that target molecules inside the newly circulating H5N1 virus that can be recognized by human killer T cells do not change in 64% of these T cell target molecules. The paper's first author ...

Mice with breast tumors developed metastatic cancer in their lungs (visible as dark deposits), whereas this was prevented in mice lacking ARHGEF1—a key protein involved in suppression of T cell ...