A new Northwestern Medicine study has discovered how radiotherapy alters the immune environment within cutaneous T-cell ...

MIT engineers have developed a new way to amplify the T-cell response to mRNA vaccines - an advance that could lead to much more powerful cancer vaccines and stronger protection against infectious ...

Adults with blood cancers who need a stem-cell transplant from a matched donor now have a new option to prevent one of the ...

Researchers found that mRNA cancer vaccines can recruit an unexpected immune cell to launch powerful tumor-fighting responses ...

Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that gut bacteria help regulate the development of the body's ...

Genetically engineered CAR T cells expressing artificial receptor proteins are increasingly used in the clinic to boost the ...

A new stem-cell-inspired technique allows scientists to grow vast numbers of immune-cell progenitors that can be engineered ...

The immune system is a complex response of various cells that detect and elicit mechanisms to eliminate disease. This orchestrated response in healthy individuals overcomes infections and foreign ...

Diets and healthy eating habits hold promise for preventing and treating diseases, but far less is known about acute effects on the immune system shortly after a meal. In a study published in Nature, ...

Immunotherapy has joined surgery, radiation and chemotherapy as one of the major pillars of cancer treatment, one that sometimes results in lifelong protection against a cancer ever coming back. But ...