(HealthDay)—Preliminary research in mice suggests that the Zika virus might be turned from foe into friend—enlisted to curb deadly glioblastoma brain tumors.
Sep 18, 2018
1
198
For cancer patients, COVID-19 poses a particular risk due to their often compromised immune systems, weakened by therapy or disease, which is why vaccination is very important for their protection. Now, a recent study led ...
Apr 12, 2022
0
10
A vaccine for HER2-positive breast cancers that is being tested in a clinical trial at Duke Cancer Institute is part of an effective, two-drug strategy for enlisting the immune system to fight tumors, according to a Duke-led ...
Jul 30, 2020
0
11
A team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) has reprogrammed the tumor microenvironment of liver cancer by using mRNA nanoparticles. This technology, similar to the ...
Feb 9, 2022
0
465
A large team of medical researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, in New York, working with colleagues from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and German firm BioNTech has developed a personalized mRNA ...
Four years after patients with melanoma were treated with a personalized cancer vaccine, the immune response kindled by the vaccine remains robust and effective in keeping cancer cells under control, researchers at Dana-Farber ...
Jan 21, 2021
0
353
New research by Joseph Wu, Edgar Engelman, and colleagues at Stanford University, U.S., has advanced an old concept to develop a new strategy to train the immune system of mice to recognize cancer cells. This work is based ...
May 6, 2021
0
73
Researchers at EPFL have created artificial molecules that can help the immune system to recognize and attack cancer tumors. The study is published in Nature Methods.
Jan 22, 2018
0
250
They're cancer patients. Transplant recipients. People with lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS, sickle cell disease, kidney failure and Crohn's disease. Plus millions of others who have conditions or take medications that ...
Aug 17, 2021
0
119
Immunotherapy, which recruits the body's own immune system to attack cancer, has given many cancer patients a new avenue to treat the disease.
Mar 24, 2021
0
92
