6 Groundbreaking Breakthroughs in Melanoma Research
Abigail Klein Leichman via Israel21c – For Skin Cancer Awareness Month, we take a look at significant research which could help doctors and scientists prevent this…
New Treatment Extends Lives of People With Most Common Type of Liver Cancer
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences via Newswise – For the first time in over a decade, scientists have identified a first-line treatment that…
Gut Bacteria Can Penetrate Tumors and Aid Cancer Therapy, Study Suggests
The Rockefeller University Press via Newswise – Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and University of Chicago have discovered that bacteria that usually…
Could Cancer Immunotherapy Success Depend on Gut Bacteria?
UT Southwestern Medical Center via EurekAlert- Could the response to cancer immunotherapy depend on bacteria that originate in the gut and travel to the tumor?…
Israeli Researcher Develops Molecule to Block Lupus
Naama Barak via Israel21c – Israeli, American scientists discover way to prevent the leakage of DNA and proteins associated with autoimmune diseases. Israeli researchers and…
Discovery of Potent Immune Cell That Can Destroy Multiple Types of Cancer
Angela Betsaida B. Laguipo, BSN via News-Medical Net – The immune system is the body’s defense against harmful pathogens that may enter the body. Immune…
Controlling the Immune System’s Brakes to Treat Cancer, Autoimmune Disorders
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital via EurekAlert – The findings may also influence cancer treatment by supercharging immunotherapy–in which the patient’s own immune system is…
Cancer Treatment: A Researcher Makes Breakthrough Immunotherapy Discovery
University of Montreal via EurekAlert – “Our work has identified a new T-cell protein that interacts with the key receptor that detects and responds to…
Engineered T Cells Could Assassinate Solid Tumor Cells
News Staff via Israel21c – Novel immunotherapy extends therapy now used in fighting leukemia, Israeli researchers say. Immunotherapy is a promising cancer treatment that enhances…
Why Immunotherapy fails 60% of Metastatic Melanoma Patients
Brian Blum via Israel21c – The ultimate goal is to improve personalized medicine. “Can we predict who will respond?” asks Markel. “Can we alter treatment…
Transplanted Brain Stem Cells Survive Without Anti-Rejection Drugs
Johns Hopkins Medicine via Science Daily – In experiments in mice, researchers say they have developed a way to successfully transplant certain protective brain cells…
Memory T Cells Shelter in Bone Marrow, Boosting Immunity in Mice with Restricted Diets
National Institutes of Health News Release – Though this phenomenon has yet to be studied in humans, the findings suggest how the immune system may…
Breakthrough in Understanding of Immune System Dysfunction
Naama Barak via Israel21c – Israeli and international scientists pinpoint protein that regulates exhaustion in T cells in discovery that may help fight disease. An…
Developing Therapeutic Strategies for Pregnant Women with Lupus
Virginia Tech via EurekAlert – “For patients with autoimmune lupus, diet and probiotics are the two relatively easy and acceptable approaches that can potentially improve…
‘Tiny Fat Bubbles’ Can Boost Immunity, Calm Disease
University of Queensland via EurekAlert – People living with inflammatory autoimmune disease could benefit from an ‘immune system reboot’, and researchers have isolated specific cells…
