CAR-T treatments begin by taking some of the patient’s own T cells. T cells are part of the body’s immune system and are involved in detecting and destroying infected or cancerous cells.

These cells deal with microbes and repair tissue damage. Two main sub-types of immune cells are T cells and macrophages. T cells are designed to recognise the molecular signatures of particular ...

That means their immune systems have built up some level of immunity against common influenza viruses. Sette and Grifoni investigated how well these influenza-fighting T cells might recognize and ...

Many people may have immune cells called "T cells" primed and ready to fight the "highly pathogenic" virus, according to a new study in the journal mBio. "We expect that a degree of pre-existing ...