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Immunotherapy is the concept of using the immune system to treat disease, for example, developing a vaccine against cancer. Immunotherapy may also refer to the therapy of diseases caused by the immune system, allergies for example.

Scientists discover gut bacteria’s role in battling cancerous tumors

Researchers with the Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases at the Cumming School of Medicine (CSM) have discovered which gut bacteria help our immune system battle cancerous tumors and how they do it.

14 Aug 2020

A genetic link discovered to predict treatment response for patients with rare, aggressive cancer

A Singapore team led by clinician-scientists and researchers from the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) discovered a genetic link to better predict treatment response for relapsed/refractory patients with natural- killer T-cell lymphoma (NKTCL), a highly aggressive form of blood cancer.

13 Aug 2020

Triple-negative breast cancer's ecosystem reveals potential therapeutic targets

Researchers from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have uncovered four new subtypes of cells within triple-negative breast cancer, which contain promising new therapeutic targets for the aggressive disease.

13 Aug 2020

West Virginia University performs revolutionary Alzheimer's treatment

A hospital nurse for 33 years, Nanette Miller would call her husband Frank at the end of each shift to let him know she was coming home.

10 Aug 2020

New method targets hidden HIV viral reservoirs during antiretroviral therapy

Scientists at The Wistar Institute may have discovered a new way of identifying and targeting hidden HIV viral reservoirs during treatment with antiretroviral therapy (ART).

10 Aug 2020

Enhancing Breast Cancer Therapy through Killing ‘Sleeper Cells’

AZoLifeSciences speaks to Dr. James Whittle and Professor Geoff Lindeman about their research in enhancing breast cancer therapy through killing sleeper cells.

From Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) 6 Aug 2020

Newly discovered biomarkers predict response to immunotherapy in Type 1 diabetes

Scientists at UCL have discovered new biomarkers, which may identify those people with Type 1 diabetes who would benefit from the immunotherapy drug Abatacept, a finding which could eventually help thousands manage the disease more effectively.

From University College London 4 Aug 2020

Detecting rare circulating tumor cells

Metastasis - the development of tumor growth at a secondary site - is responsible for the majority of cancer-related deaths.

4 Aug 2020

Researchers develop CAR-T cell therapy based on TCR signal transduction

The T cell receptor (TCR) is a key receptor that is responsible for detecting tumor antigens in T cells.

4 Aug 2020

Study reveals new strategy to reduce tumor growth

According to a new study, tumors can escape the immune system by instructing immune cells to create immunosuppressive steroids.

31 Jul 2020

New approach is more effective in treating certain blood cancers

Some of the most promising advances in cancer treatment have centered on immunotherapies that rev up a patient's immune system to attack cancer.

24 Jul 2020

Reactivating divergent signaling pathways to enhance cancer treatment

In order for cancer to form in the human body, normal cells must acquire multiple mutations before they develop toward the disease. It was previously believed that these mutations acted in concert in the progression of cancer.

23 Jul 2020

Study shows how T cells become cancer-killing cells

Within the immune system, the T lymphocytes operate to kill cancer cells or infected cells.

21 Jul 2020

Josep Carreras Institute creates spin-off to develop CAR-T based therapies for leukemia

The Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute, a public centre pertaining to the Generalitat de Catalunya's (Government of Catalonia) CERCA network, has created the OneChain Immunotherapeutics spin-off, the aim of which is to develop new immuno-oncological therapeutic tools with various preclinical candidates, based on CAR-T technology for different tumors, such as cortical T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (coT-ALL), a rare subtype of leukemia that mainly affects children, and which has a poor prognosis.

21 Jul 2020

New, promising CAR T cell therapy results in exceptional patient recovery

In a clinical trial evaluating a novel immunotherapy option for cancer treatment, a child with rhabdomyosarcoma, a form of muscle cancer, that had spread to the bone marrow, showed no detectable cancer following treatment with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells that were engineered to target the HER2 protein on the surface of cancerthe cells.

16 Jul 2020

Nano-radiomics uses imaging data to assess changes in the tumor microenvironment

Research has shown that the tumor microenvironment (TME) can help cancers grow and evade the immune response.The TME has even been shown to inhibit cellular immunotherapy, a novel form of treatment in which the cells of a patient's immune system are re-engineered in the lab to attack cancer cells.

14 Jul 2020

The immune system can play a key role in improving recovery from heart attacks

International research collaboration to pioneer the field of immuno-cardiology and investigate ways to harness the power of the immune system to improve recovery from heart attacks will be led at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania by Jonathan Epstein, MD, executive vice dean, chief scientific officer and the William Wikoff Smith Professor of Cardiovascular Research.

14 Jul 2020

Researchers develop new immunotherapy that prevents reoccurrence of breast cancer

New immunotherapy developed by researchers at Northwestern University dramatically extends the survival time of mice with triple-negative breast cancer, one of the most aggressive and difficult-to-treat forms of breast cancer.

14 Jul 2020

Targeted radionuclide therapy creates a favorable tumor microenvironment in prostate cancer

Targeted radionuclide therapy has been found to create a favorable tumor microenvironment in prostate cancer that improves the effectiveness of immunotherapies.

14 Jul 2020

Single dose of tocilizumab improves survival in critically ill COVID-19 patients

Critically ill COVID-19 patients who received a single dose of a drug that calms an overreacting immune system were 45% less likely to die overall, and more likely to be out of the hospital or off a ventilator one month after treatment, compared with those who didn't receive the drug, according to a new study by a team from the University of Michigan.

14 Jul 2020

Immunotherapy News and Research

Scientists discover gut bacteria’s role in battling cancerous tumors

A genetic link discovered to predict treatment response for patients with rare, aggressive cancer

Triple-negative breast cancer's ecosystem reveals potential therapeutic targets

West Virginia University performs revolutionary Alzheimer's treatment

New method targets hidden HIV viral reservoirs during antiretroviral therapy

Enhancing Breast Cancer Therapy through Killing ‘Sleeper Cells’

Newly discovered biomarkers predict response to immunotherapy in Type 1 diabetes

Detecting rare circulating tumor cells

Researchers develop CAR-T cell therapy based on TCR signal transduction

Study reveals new strategy to reduce tumor growth

New approach is more effective in treating certain blood cancers

Reactivating divergent signaling pathways to enhance cancer treatment

Study shows how T cells become cancer-killing cells

Josep Carreras Institute creates spin-off to develop CAR-T based therapies for leukemia

New, promising CAR T cell therapy results in exceptional patient recovery

Nano-radiomics uses imaging data to assess changes in the tumor microenvironment

The immune system can play a key role in improving recovery from heart attacks

Researchers develop new immunotherapy that prevents reoccurrence of breast cancer

Targeted radionuclide therapy creates a favorable tumor microenvironment in prostate cancer

Single dose of tocilizumab improves survival in critically ill COVID-19 patients

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