For many years, oncologists have known that cancers can secrete complex molecules into the blood and that levels of these molecules can be easily measured. These so-called 'tumor markers' are traditionally associated with ...
Sep 6, 2017
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One reason we survive into adulthood is that cell-killing T cells usually recognize and eliminate cancerous or pathogen-infected cells. But prolonged overactivity of immune cells summoned to a tumor or infection site can ...
Mar 14, 2017
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New cancer therapies harness the immune system to fight tumors. One of the main principles behind these therapies is to find out precisely which molecules on cancer cells trigger an immune response. A team at the Technical ...
Dec 15, 2016
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Adoptive cell-therapies, in which a patient's own immune cells are used to recognize and target tumors, have shown breakthrough results for patients with certain B-cell malignancies, or cancers of the blood, but this therapy ...
Sep 14, 2016
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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 ...
Jul 18, 2016
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UC San Francisco scientists have created a new class of highly customizable biological sensors that can be used to form "logic gates" inside cells of the immune system, giving these cells the capability to home in on and ...
Jan 29, 2016
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Men with an elevated, genetically inherited risk for prostate cancer could be routinely identified with a simple blood or urine test, scientists at UC San Francisco and Kaiser Permanente Northern California have concluded, ...
Jun 17, 2015
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The effectiveness of cancer vaccines could be dramatically boosted by first loading the cancer antigens into silicon microparticles, report scientists from Houston Methodist and two other institutions in an upcoming Cell ...
May 5, 2015
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Cancer vaccines are designed to turn the body's own immune system specifically against tumor cells. Particularly promising are vaccines that are directed against so-called neoantigens: These are proteins that have undergone ...
Feb 19, 2015
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A combination of iron-oxide nanoparticles and an alternating magnetic field, which together generate heat, have activated an immune system response to tumors in mice according to an accepted manuscript by Dartmouth-Hitchcock ...
Mar 4, 2014
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