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 ...

As part of a clinical trial, the girl received CAR-T cell therapy, a treatment that requires removing some of a patient’s immune cells and programming them to target and kill cancer cells before ...

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...