Cancer immunotherapy is built on a simple but powerful idea: the immune system can recognize and destroy cancer cells if it is properly activated. In many patients, however, this response is too weak ...

Therapeutic cancer vaccines have experienced a remarkable resurgence over the past decade, representing a paradigm shift in oncology toward harnessing the immune system's intrinsic ability to combat ...

Founder Patrick Soon-Shiong said the company’s AI-powered immune cell manufacturing robot is already in production. ・The “world’s first” NK-cell manufacturing robot uses AI and machine learning to ...

Cancer scientists have been working against the clock for decades to outsmart a disease that comes back more powerfully after treatment. Traditional treatments like chemotherapy, radiation, and even ...

Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine have uncovered a previously unknown way the immune system fights cancer — and the ...

Cancer cells can disarm the immune system not just by hiding from it, but by actively reprogramming nearby immune cells into a suppressed state. This previously unrecognized molecular interaction, ...

T cells, which target infection and disease, can become more effective after a meal. The finding might help improve ...

Pancreatic cancer’s deadliest trait may be its ability to stay invisible — and researchers in Rochester say they are ...

Gram-stained section of a macrophage with ingested S epidermidis bacteria, seen as purple granules within its cytoplasm. In this stain, the nucleus appears pale, with a reddish nucleolus. It is ...

Cancer treatment usually conjures up images of major surgical operations, intravenous drips and intimidating radiotherapy machines. But what if a cancer therapy could be realized that is as ...

A biopsy of a woman's cancer seems to have triggered an immune response against the tumour, putting her into remission ...