While a cure remains elusive, cancer treatment has seen significant advances in recent years. New innovations include ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way tumors turn the immune system to their advantage. Researchers at the University of ...

A novel immunotherapy drug is credited for successfully treating former President Jimmy Carter's advanced melanoma. Instead of killing cancer cells, these drugs boost the patient's immune system, ...

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Scientists at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University and colleagues have developed a promising new approach to cancer treatment. By using tiny, naturally occurring ...

A new study identifies an extreme but effective way that brain immune cells can prevent the parasite Toxoplasma gondii from spreading: they kill themselves to eliminate the dangerous microbes they ...

In 2015, former President Jimmy Carter was diagnosed with late stage melanoma, a form of skin cancer that had spread to his brain and other organs. For a number of reasons, traditional means of ...

A rare lymphoma diagnosis meant Giorgi Gagoshidze had to abandon a film project on the economic factors behind the USSR’s collapse – until he found new meaning in medical terminology ...

A Brossay Lab study reveals how nonclassical CD8+ T cells can be activated by molecules that go undetected by classical CD8+ ...