Oncology & Cancer

New test to predict the effectiveness of cancer vaccines

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 ...

Oncology & Cancer

'Double decker' antibody technology fights cancer

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have created a new class of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), using a versatile "double decker" technology that ties antibodies and a drug together ...

Oncology & Cancer

Biomaterial-delivered one-two punch boosts cancer immunotherapy

Cancer immunotherapy has brought major improvement in patient survival and quality of life, especially with the success of adoptive T cell and immune checkpoint inhibitor therapies. Unfortunately, in contrast to different ...

Oncology & Cancer

FDA approves engineered cell therapy for treating rare sarcoma

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted accelerated approval for the immunotherapy afamitresgene autoleuecel (Tecelra, also known as afami-cel) for the treatment of adults with a rare soft tissue cancer called ...

Oncology & Cancer

Mouse model exposes a new type of T cell to target melanoma

Cancers arise in the body all the time. Most are nipped in the bud by the immune response, not least by its T cells, which detect telltale molecular markers—or antigens—on cancer cells and destroy them before they grow ...

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