Now, researchers have identified a mechanism by which viral infection can lead to cachexia. In mice infected by a particular virus, killer T cells trigger the wasting of fat tissue and body weight, ...

When blood cancer cells break through the bone and multiply, tumor cells become dangerously diverse and the immune response ...

The body’s defense system against infection also fights tumors, generating tumor resident stem-like T cells and killer T cells that express inhibitory receptors such as PD-1. When PD-1 binds to PD-L1 ...

Creating cancer therapies based around natural killer cells could offer similar levels of efficacy to CAR-T therapies, but at around one hundredth of the cost. Researchers at MD Anderson Cancer ...

Researchers identify a key molecule controlling two waves of Regulatory T cells, which work to meditate killer T cells and protect healthy tissue surrounding infections. Regulatory T cells control the ...

However, while CAR-T therapies provide a potent treatment ... So instead, Rezvani decided to add the CAR gene to natural killer (NK) cells. “These cells are part of the innate immune system ...

A sugar produced by soil bacteria may be able to stop the loss of skin pigment caused by vitiligo.  | A sugar produced by ...

Vaccine-induced T cell responses control Orthoflavivirus challenge infection without neutralizing antibodies in humans. Nature Microbiology , 2025; DOI: 10.1038/s41564-024-01903-7 Cite This Page : ...

A natural compound derived from gut-friendly bacteria significantly slows the progression of vitiligo and may restore pigmentation, reports a new pre-clinical study in mice.

Moreover, patients who had undergone prior CD19-directed CAR T-cell therapy had a complete ... [induced pluripotent stem cell]-derived CAR [natural killer] cells are a highly promising approach ...

An investigational induced pluripotent stem cell-derived CAR natural killer cell therapy was well ... who had received previous autologous CAR T-cell therapy, an area of continued unmet need ...