Nature Immunology

Immunology

Regulating the regulators of the immune system

Checkpoint inhibitors have become important tools in the cancer-fighting arsenal. By blocking proteins that normally restrain the immune response, these drugs can help the immune system destroy cancer cells.

Immunology

Young, sleeping memory cells are crucial in fighting a reinfection

Researchers from the Netherlands Cancer Institute, the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), and Oncode have created a tracking system that can reveal how often cells have divided. This allowed them to find a yet-undiscovered ...

Medications

Study: Cancer drugs might be able to target tuberculosis

An unexpected link between tuberculosis and cancer may lead to new drug treatments for the bacterial disease that kills more than 1.5 million people each year, according to a study led by researchers at Stanford Medicine.

Oncology & Cancer

Scientists uncover unique immune cell surveillance mechanism

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and King's College London have identified how specialist immune cells, called gamma delta T cells (γδ T cells), sense the body's status quo, enabling them to assess the health ...

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