Small study hints that revving up immune cells might help fight HIV
Today's medicines have turned the virus that causes AIDS from a fast killer into a manageable chronic disease, often keeping ...
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When immune cells stop fighting cancer and start helping it
Scientists have uncovered a surprising way tumors turn the immune system to their advantage. Researchers at the University of Geneva ...
Why colorectal cancer breaks the immune system’s rules
Colorectal cancer has long baffled scientists because, unlike most tumors, patients often do better when their cancers are packed with ...
Study by Indian researchers finds that body’s immune cells ‘betray’ it to help breast cancer spread
The study’s authors noted that future therapies could aim to re-educate immune cells, switching them back into their tumour-fighting mode ...
Scientists turn tumor immune cells into cancer killers
Scientists at KAIST have found a way to turn a tumor’s own immune cells into powerful cancer fighters—right inside the ...
Vitamin A may be helping cancer hide from the immune system
A vitamin A byproduct has been found to quietly disarm the immune system, allowing tumors to evade attack and weakening ...
Northwestern Medicine’s new antibody wakes the immune system against pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer uses a sugar-coated disguise to evade the immune system, helping explain why it’s so hard to treat. Northwestern ...
Scientists find spaceflight affects immune genes, deforms the brain
The brain is a particularly important area of concern; previous research has shown that without gravity, the brain tends to ...
Injection turns sleeping tumor immune cells into cancer fighters
KAIST researchers have developed a way to reprogram immune cells already inside tumors into cancer-killing machines. A drug injected directly ...
Study links insomnia, anxiety to weaker immune system
The findings could help better understand the physiological consequences of anxiety and insomnia, and in preventing immune-related disorders and cancers, ...