An Australian study by researchers at Peter Mac has shown that the natural protection against breast cancer offered by ...

Natural killer cells are supposed to be the immune system’s first responders against cancer. They don’t need to be trained on a specific target the way T cells do. They recognize stressed or abnormal ...

There is a constant war going on in your body. Working against you are viruses and cancer cells growing uncontrollably, ...

Scientists have made great progress in harnessing the body's own immune cells to treat so-called liquid tumors, cancers of the blood and lymphatic system. Yet these powerful cell therapies have been ...

From early development to old age, cell death is a part of life. Without enough of a critical type of cell death known as apoptosis, animals wind up with too many cells, which can set the stage for ...

They are called “Natural Killer” (NK) cells for a reason. These cytotoxic lymphocytes, a part of innate immunity, are the body’s cellular “boots on the ground,” capable of swiftly and ferociously ...

An investigational induced pluripotent stem cell-derived CAR natural killer cell therapy was well tolerated both as monotherapy and in combination with rituximab among patients with B-cell lymphomas, ...

UCSF scientists have developed a “molecular GPS” to guide immune cells into the brain and kill tumors without harming healthy tissue. It is the first living cell therapy that can navigate through the ...

ANKL is a rare and aggressive type of blood cancer affecting a type of white blood cell called natural killer (NK) cells. In ANKL, the NK cells are abnormal and multiply out of control, crowding out ...