Obstetrics & gynaecology

Designing an emergency stop switch for immunotherapies

Immunotherapy, unlike chemotherapy and radiotherapy, arms the body's immune system to attack cancer cells. In recent years, it has proven to be remarkably successful at treating leukemia, lymphoma and other liquid cancers, ...

Oncology & Cancer

Dual antigen targeting may improve CAR T cell cancer therapy

A solid tumor comprises a heterogeneous population of cells that differ from each other on their type of surface molecules. In an article published today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers from Baylor College ...

Medical research

Video imaging reveals how immune cells sense danger

How do T cells, the beat cops of the immune system, detect signs of disease without the benefit of eyes? Like most cells, they explore their surroundings through direct physical contact, but how T cells feel out intruders ...

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