(Juan Gartner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) The human immune system has evolved an incredible ability to fight off ...

There is a constant war going on in your body. Working against you are viruses and cancer cells growing uncontrollably, threatening your tissues and organs. Fighting on your side are immune cells such ...

T cells are an elite fighting force of the immune system, seeking out and destroying diseased cells. But in a prolonged ...

Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy—CAR T for short—has been a major advance in treating blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma. But the immunotherapy has struggled against solid tumors for two ...

Pre-wired ability in ‘resting’ T cells to remember past viral foes discovered, a promising breakthrough for targeted cancer therapies. A team of immunologists at the University of Massachusetts ...

T cells offer several advantages for solid tumor immunotherapy, including innate tumor recognition, human leukocyte ...

CAR T-cell therapy has the potential to revolutionise how we treat certain types of cancer by genetically engineering someone’s own immune cells to attack the disease – but it is also cumbersome and ...

The first clinical trial to test the tumour-fighting power of a stem-cell-like class of long-lived immune cells suggests that they could be more potent and less toxic than the standard mix of cells ...

Immunotherapies – treatments that aim to make the body's natural immune system more effective – are becoming more widely used for various cancers. This new discovery could help make immunotherapies ...

In most solid tumors, high numbers of regulatory T (Treg) cells are associated with poorer outcomes because they dampen the immune system's ability to fight against a tumor. Colorectal cancer, however ...

T-cells are the immune system's frontline defenders with a crucial role in controlling HIV. In a milestone clinical trial ...