Fifteen years ago, doctors in Europe noticed a remarkable thing happening in people with chronic hepatitis B infections. When patients went off their medications, the virus started to come back—and ...

Dozens of new discoveries reveal that defenses evolved by bacteria and viruses billions of years ago still define our own innate immune system. Evolutionary arms races — where one species is pitted ...

In desperation, the woman’s care team reached out to Müller, a hematologist-oncologist at the University Hospital of Erlangen, a roughly three-hour drive away by ambulance. In recent years, he and his ...

How can cancer cells be targeted without damaging healthy tissue? This is one of the major challenges facing oncology today. Using synthetic DNA strands, a team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) ...

In a paradigm-breaking study, researchers have discovered a novel way the immune system, specifically T cells, attack their target cells, reshaping long-held assumptions in immunology and ...

For years, one of the most powerful weapons against certain blood cancers, called CAR-T therapy, has required an elaborate process: Doctors extract a patient’s immune cells, ship them to a specialized ...

Manufacturing CAR T cell therapy—one of the most powerful weapons against certain blood cancers—has to date involved an elaborate process, through which doctors first extract a patient’s immune cells ...

Viruses, Infections & Disease A parasite never before seen in humans was behind a woman's lung infection, organ damage and forgetfulness Viruses, Infections & Disease Woman's 'biologically implausible ...

This illustration highlights a safe, universal stem cell source of therapeutic cells that can evade the immune system. These cells can be made to produce vital therapeutics to augment the treatment ...

You contain multitudes. Within you there are billions of defenders, ready to protect your health from threats arising both outside and inside your body. This is your immune system, and it consists of ...

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