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Understanding the Role of T Cells in Lung Cancer Could Lead to Improved Immunotherapy Outcomes

Fresh discoveries about a type of immune cells could give lung cancer patients a more accurate prognosis and better identify who will benefit from immunotherapies.

31 Aug 2023

Study Characterizes the Properties of MAIT Cells in Mouse Lung

A population of unconventional white blood cells has recently captured the attention of immunologists and clinicians alike.

26 May 2023

Attaching Microbubbles to Macrophages can Create Tracking Images for Tumor Diagnosis

Macrophages, a type of white blood cell, defend the body by engulfing and digesting foreign particles, such as bacteria, viruses, and dead cells.

9 May 2023

T Cells can Fuel Their Ability to Attack Tumors

When you need a bit of motivation, it often has to come from within. New research suggests cancer-fighting immune cells have found a way to do just that.

9 May 2023

New Approach Could Power the Development of Advanced Cell Therapies

A new approach to the genetic engineering of cells promises significant improvements in speed, efficiency, and reduction in cellular toxicity compared to current methods.

2 May 2023

Neutrophils can affect the success of immunotherapy in treating cancer, study shows

Cancer immunotherapies that recruit a patient's own immune system to destroy tumors have transformed the treatment of many types of cancer. Yet these therapies do not elicit universally good treatment responses.

31 Mar 2023

Myeloid cells contribute to a long-lived HIV reservoir, study shows

A subset of white blood cells, known as myeloid cells, can harbor HIV in people who have been virally suppressed for years on antiretroviral therapy, according to findings from a small study supported by the National Institutes of Health.

28 Mar 2023

Developing new therapies that leverage the host immune system

Yersinia bacteria cause a variety of human and animal diseases, the most notorious being the plague, caused by Yersinia pestis. A relative, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, causes gastrointestinal illness and is less deadly but naturally infects both mice and humans, making it a useful model for studying its interactions with the immune system.

14 Mar 2023

Study pinpoints a splicing deregulation that causes therapeutic vulnerability in pediatric AML

Pediatric acute myeloid leukemia or pAML is a childhood blood cancer, one that has proved confounding to clinicians and researchers, with a high relapse rate and relatively few identified genetic mutations (compared to the adult version) that might explain its cause.

8 Mar 2023

New signals of natural selection in humans identified

A team of global experts has discovered new signals of natural selection in humans.

2 Mar 2023

Massive clinical study on type 1 diabetes patients

A massive clinical study on an approved psoriasis drug is now underway. The drug will be tested on people who have just been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. The drug, according to the theory, could preserve the patient’s remaining insulin production.

30 Jan 2023

Understanding immune cell function to improve vaccine efficacy

The immune system’s capacity to remember defeated disease-causing germs and avoid recurrent infections is still poorly understood, but a new study published in Science Immunology fills in some gaps.

From Rutgers University 8 Nov 2022

Brain-resident and recruited macrophages exhibit diverging responses

Prof. Kiavash Movahedi (VUB, VIB) headed a group that outlined how the immune system responds to infections entering the brain. The results offer new information on host-pathogen interactions as well as the long-term effects of brain infections.

14 Oct 2022

Yeast platform for the production of plant-derived anti-cancer drug

The supply of a plant-derived anti-cancer drug can finally meet global demand after a team of scientists from Denmark and the U.S. engineered yeast to produce the precursor molecules, which could previously only be obtained in trace concentrations in the native plant.

1 Sep 2022

White Blood Cell News and Research

Understanding the Role of T Cells in Lung Cancer Could Lead to Improved Immunotherapy Outcomes

Study Characterizes the Properties of MAIT Cells in Mouse Lung

Attaching Microbubbles to Macrophages can Create Tracking Images for Tumor Diagnosis

T Cells can Fuel Their Ability to Attack Tumors

New Approach Could Power the Development of Advanced Cell Therapies

Neutrophils can affect the success of immunotherapy in treating cancer, study shows

Myeloid cells contribute to a long-lived HIV reservoir, study shows

Developing new therapies that leverage the host immune system

Study pinpoints a splicing deregulation that causes therapeutic vulnerability in pediatric AML

New signals of natural selection in humans identified

Massive clinical study on type 1 diabetes patients

Understanding immune cell function to improve vaccine efficacy

Brain-resident and recruited macrophages exhibit diverging responses

Yeast platform for the production of plant-derived anti-cancer drug

Researchers identify the molecular route that leads to autoimmune disease inflammation

A new technique eases identification of cell-type-specific genes in single-cell data

Manipulating immune cells to suppress the growth of some solid tumors

Mice study sheds light on why tissues often fail to regenerate from muscle-loss injuries

Study shows how immune systems tune antibodies to fight against infection

Researchers find increased red blood cell destruction in astronauts

The Last Piece of Our Genome: Sequencing the Y Chromosome

Understanding the Importance of Entrepreneurship in the Life Sciences Community

Supporting Informed Decisions on Malaria Biocontrol Interventions

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