News tagged with cancer immunology


Insights into the immune system, from the fates of individual T cells

By charting the differing fates of individual T cells, researchers have shown that previously unpredictable aspects of the adaptive immune response can be effectively modeled. The crucial question: What determines ...

Medical research created Mar 20, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Asterix's Roman foes: Researchers have a better idea of how cancer cells move and grow

Researchers at the University of Montreal's Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) have discovered a new mechanism that allows some cells in our body to move together, in some ways like the ...

Cancer created Mar 12, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers say silencing of retinoblastoma gene regulates differentiation of myeloid cells

Researchers at the Moffitt Cancer Center have found a potential mechanism by which immune suppressive myeloid-derived suppressor cells can prevent immune response from developing in cancer. This mechanism includes silencing ...

Immunology created Feb 19, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New strategy prevents rheumatoid arthritis in mice

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists have demonstrated a new strategy for treating autoimmune disease that successfully blocked the development of rheumatoid arthritis in a mouse model. They say it holds promise for improved ...

Arthritis & Rheumatism created Feb 08, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Immune system can use melanoma's own proteins to kill off cancer cells

Though a small group of proteins, the family called Ras controls a large number of cellular functions, including cell growth, differentiation, and survival. And because the protein has a hand in cellular division, mutated ...

Cancer created Feb 04, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers shed light on the workings of the body's immune response

Researchers from Queen Mary, University of London have discovered that two proteins which are believed to play a key role in controlling the body's immune response are found in lower levels in T lymphocytes from patients ...

Immunology created Dec 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Wnt5a protein critical to gut lining repair

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a protein essential to repairing the intestine's inner lining.

Medical research created Sep 06, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Blood cancer cells initiate signalling cascade

Researchers in the group of Prof. Dr. Hassan Jumaa, Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS) of the University of Freiburg, Department for Molecular Immunology, have identified a new mechanism that ...

Cancer created Aug 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Transcription factor Lyl-1 critical in producing early T-cell progenitors

A transcription factor called Lyl-1 is necessary for production of the earliest cells that can become T-cells, critical cells born in the thymus that coordinate the immune response to cancer or infections, said a consortium ...

Immunology created Jul 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop and test new anti-cancer vaccine

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have developed and tested in mice a synthetic vaccine and found it effective in killing human papillomavirus-derived cancer, a virus linked to cervical cancers among others. The research ...

Cancer created Jun 08, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study reveals trigger that may speed melanoma growth

(HealthDay) -- Growth of the deadly skin cancer melanoma may be triggered by the immune system turning on itself, according to a new study that also identified the mechanism that causes this to happen.

Cancer created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New study has implications for treating and preventing cancers caused by viruses

New research from the Trudeau Institute addresses how the human body controls gamma-herpesviruses, a class of viruses thought to cause a variety of cancers. The study, carried out in the laboratory of Dr. Marcia Blackman, ...

Immunology created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Antibodies to intracellular cancer antigens combined with chemotherapy enhance anti-cancer immunity

An international team of scientists in Japan, Switzerland, and the United States has confirmed that combining chemotherapy and immunotherapy in cancer treatment enhances the immune system's ability to find and eliminate cancer ...

Cancer created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Discovery of new vaccine approach for treatment of cancer

(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, have developed a new vaccine to treat cancer at the pre-clinical level. The research team led by Professor Kingston Mills, Professor of Experimental ...

Cancer created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Newest cancer therapies multi-task to eliminate tumors

Some of the newest therapies in the war on cancer remove the brakes cancer puts on the immune system, Georgia Health Sciences University researchers report.

Cancer created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast