The team identified a specific population of immune cells that play a critical role in successful treatment of relapsed acute myeloid leukemia (AML). A research team from Columbia Engineering and ...

Cancer cells can poison attacking immune cells by filling them with defective mitochondria ― dampening the body’s defensive forces and helping the tumour to evade eradication 1. These findings ...

Innate immune cells are white blood cells that mediate innate immunity and include basophils, dendritic cells, eosinophils, Langerhans cells, mast cells, monocytes and macrophages, neutrophils and ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows.

CAR T cell therapy, first developed at Penn Medicine, is a personalized cancer treatment that reprograms a patient’s immune cells to target and destroy cancer cells. “Thousands of patients with blood ...

A group of immune proteins called the inflammasome can help prevent blood stem cells from becoming malignant by removing certain receptors from their surfaces and blocking cancer gene activity ...

A study conducted by researchers at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology has uncovered a pivotal role of asparagine metabolism in regulating B cell homeostasis and immune response. Germinal ...

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Each antibody produced by your immune system binds to a specific antigen and then either destroys the pathogen or tags it so other immune cells will recognize it. Antibodies are also known as ...

Drinking plenty of water helps cells operate efficiently and allows your body to process food and eliminate waste. For an additional immune boost, try adding garlic (shown to possess virus-fighting ...