CAR T-cell therapy has been hugely successful in treating certain types of tumours, and stiffening up cancer cells beforehand could make it even more effective ...

A team led by researchers from the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT/UCC) Dresden at the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital (UKD) and the Carl Gustav Carus Faculty of Medicine at the TUD ...

Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have discovered a promising new way to improve CAR-T cell ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered that T cell receptors activate through a hidden spring-like motion that had never been seen before. This breakthrough may help explain why immunotherapy works for some ...

The cost of CAR T-cell therapy means that the highly effective cancer treatment is unavailable in many parts of the world.

CAR T-cell therapy, which transforms patients’ own immune cells into cancer-fighting warriors, has revolutionized how physicians treat cancer, especially blood cancers. “These patients can be cured ...

A protein that helps cancer cells hide from the immune system may have a critical weakness, according to research that could change how scientists design the next wave of immunotherapy combinations.

We also report on a new use for artificial intelligence that could help eliminate some racial inequities in heart disease ...