Oncology & Cancer
Natural killers: Using the body's cells to target breast cancer
It sounds like a plot from a Quentin Tarantino movie—something sets off natural killers and sends them on a killing spree.
Jun 16, 2021
0
15
News tagged with natural killer
Genetics
Measuring gene expression changes over time may help predict T1D diabetes progression
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease in which a misdirected immune system gradually destroys healthy pancreatic islet β cells, resulting in a lack of insulin. The exact cause of T1D remains unknown. However, β ...
Jun 7, 2021
0
8
Oncology & Cancer
Researchers identify how to prevent cancer metastases
Metastases can develop in the body even years after apparently successful cancer treatment. They originate from cancer cells that migrated from the original tumor to other organs, and which can lie there inactive for a considerable ...
Jun 2, 2021
0
22
Medical research
Why are some COVID-19 vaccines working better for men than women?
If there's one take-home message for the general public about the coronavirus vaccines approved in the U.S., it's that they are remarkably effective.
May 20, 2021
0
6
Oncology & Cancer
NK cells with bispecific antibody show activity against lymphoma cells
Cytokine-activated natural killer (NK) cells derived from donated umbilical cord blood, combined with an investigational bispecific antibody targeting CD16a and CD30 known as AFM13, displayed potent anti-tumor activity against ...
May 13, 2021
0
5
Oncology & Cancer
Modern anti-cancer drugs work via tiny molecular motions
Modern immunotherapeutic anti-cancer drugs support a natural mechanism of the immune system to inhibit the growth of cancer cells. They dock onto a specific receptor of the killer cell and prevent it from being switched off ...
Feb 3, 2021
0
25
Oncology & Cancer
Scientists 'farm' natural killer cells in novel cancer fighting approach
Building on the promise of emerging therapies to deploy the body's natural killer immune cells to fight cancer, researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center and U-M College of Engineering have gone one step ...
Jan 28, 2021
0
285
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Risk of severe COVID established early in infection, new study shows
Why most people who get COVID have mild symptoms or none at all while some become severely ill is still a mystery—a mystery that scientists are urgently trying to solve.
Jan 25, 2021
0
8
Oncology & Cancer
New combination of immunotherapies shows great promise for treating lung cancer
McMaster University researchers have established in lab settings that a novel combination of two forms of immunotherapy can be highly effective for treating lung cancer, which causes more deaths than any other form of cancer.
Jan 22, 2021
0
6
Oncology & Cancer
Potential treatment approach kills lymphoma while sparing healthy cells
Scientists at Scripps Research have demonstrated a promising new strategy for treating lymphomas, a group of cancers that begin in infection-fighting cells of the immune system called lymphocytes.
Dec 16, 2020
0
73
