Oncology & Cancer

Enzyme that protects against viruses could fuel cancer evolution

An enzyme that defends human cells against viruses can help drive cancer evolution towards greater malignancy by causing myriad mutations in cancer cells, according to a study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine. ...

Oncology & Cancer

Researchers expanding the types of cancer CAR-T therapy can target

Teaching the body's immune cells to recognize and fight cancer is one of the holy grails in medicine. Over the past two decades, researchers have developed new immunotherapy drugs that stimulate a patient's immune cells to ...

Oncology & Cancer

Killing pancreatic cancer with T cells that supercharge themselves

Scientists at UC San Francisco (UCSF) have engineered T cells to produce a potent anti-cancer cytokine, but only when they encounter tumor cells. The immunotherapy eliminated melanoma and pancreatic cancer in mice without ...

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