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Immunotherapy
Immunotherapy: is a type of cancer treatment the helps the immune system to fight cancer. The immune system helps your body fight infections and other diseases. It uses substances made by the body or in a laboratory in order to improve or restore the body's immune system function.
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JAN 02, 2017Immunology
Cancer cells have a tendency of hijacking human immune cells in an effort to avoid destruction by the immune system, but ...Written By: Kara MarkerDEC 29, 2016Immunology
Nanodiscs just 10 nanometers wide successfully delivered customized cancer treatments to mice with colon and melanoma tu ...Written By: Kara MarkerDEC 29, 2016Videos
Cindy Stowell from Austin TX had made it her goal to compete on Jeopardy. Even while suffering from Stage 4 colon cancer ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimDEC 10, 2016Immunology
For high-risk cancer patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), oncologists are interested in supplementing bone marrow ...Written By: Kara MarkerDEC 02, 2016Immunology
People suffering from head and neck cancer can be treated through surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, but a typical pr ...Written By: Kara MarkerNOV 21, 2016Cancer
Scientists at the University of Leeds announced the discovery of a virus that can kill liver cancer cells. The virus is ...NOV 19, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
In a historic, landmark clinical trial, Chinese researchers injected a patient with a shot of CRISPR-edited white blood ...NOV 11, 2016Genetics & Genomics
Scientists are hard at work improving immune cells called T cells, which are naturally designed to recognize and target ...Written By: Kara MarkerNOV 07, 2016Immunology
Healthy populations of bacteria, called the microbiome, live in the mouths and gastrointestinal tracts of humans, and th ...Written By: Kara MarkerOCT 28, 2016Immunology
The human immune system does have specially-designed cells for killing cancer cells, but they usually don’t live l ...Written By: Kara MarkerOCT 26, 2016Immunology
The newest effort in cancer treatment research involves the combination of not one, not two, not three, but four differe ...Written By: Kara MarkerOCT 24, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
The blood-brain barrier is a formidable defense for the protection of one of the most critical organs in the body &ndash ...OCT 19, 2016Cancer
Head and neck cancers that are metastatic or resistant to cisplatin are notoriously aggressive. The prognosis for patien ...OCT 14, 2016Immunology
Enhancing a cancer patient’s own T cells to reduce tumor growth is an up-and-coming cancer therapy that is being u ...Written By: Kara MarkerOCT 08, 2016Microbiology
Humans have a symbiotic relationship with microorganisms, many of which reside in our gastrointestinal tract, and they c ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 30, 2016Videos
Some vaccines can prevent diseases but what they are really meant to do is provoke an immune response in the body. That ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 27, 2016Immunology
Scientists from Stanford University accidentally discovered a new cancer treatment, and it’s got all of the anti-c ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 12, 2016Cancer
A drug that’s currently under testing in people has been found to kill melanoma cells, even the treatment-resistan ...SEP 07, 2016Cancer
When treating cancer, doctors have turned to immunotherapy to help target actual tumors instead of attacking all rapidly ...Written By: Jennifer EllisAUG 29, 2016Microbiology
The relationship between parasites and cancer is not new; researchers have known for many years about parasites that can ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 24, 2016Immunology
Image Credit: iStockphoto Preschool children with a peanut allergy were able to start eating peanuts after taking part i ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)AUG 14, 2016Immunology
Image Credit: Guilhem Vellut/Flickr The microenvironment that supports a cancerous tumor also starves the immune cells t ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)AUG 06, 2016Cancer
In an effort to nip lymphomas before it becomes lethal to patients, scientists at the University of Geneva have develope ...AUG 01, 2016Immunology
A new treatment for the selective targeting of ovarian cancer cells has been adopted from chimeric antigen receptor (CAR ...Written By: Kara Marker
JAN 02, 2017
Immunology
Cancer cells have a tendency of hijacking human immune cells in an effort to avoid destruction by the immune system, but
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 29, 2016
Immunology
Nanodiscs just 10 nanometers wide successfully delivered customized cancer treatments to mice with colon and melanoma tu
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 29, 2016
Videos
Cindy Stowell from Austin TX had made it her goal to compete on Jeopardy. Even while suffering from Stage 4 colon cancer
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
DEC 10, 2016
Immunology
For high-risk cancer patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), oncologists are interested in supplementing bone marrow
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 02, 2016
Immunology
People suffering from head and neck cancer can be treated through surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, but a typical pr
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 21, 2016
Cancer
Scientists at the University of Leeds announced the discovery of a virus that can kill liver cancer cells. The virus is
...
NOV 19, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
In a historic, landmark clinical trial, Chinese researchers injected a patient with a shot of CRISPR-edited white blood
...
NOV 11, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists are hard at work improving immune cells called T cells, which are naturally designed to recognize and target
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 07, 2016
Immunology
Healthy populations of bacteria, called the microbiome, live in the mouths and gastrointestinal tracts of humans, and th
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 28, 2016
Immunology
The human immune system does have specially-designed cells for killing cancer cells, but they usually don’t live l
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 26, 2016
Immunology
The newest effort in cancer treatment research involves the combination of not one, not two, not three, but four differe
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 24, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
The blood-brain barrier is a formidable defense for the protection of one of the most critical organs in the body &ndash
...
OCT 19, 2016
Cancer
Head and neck cancers that are metastatic or resistant to cisplatin are notoriously aggressive. The prognosis for patien
...
OCT 14, 2016
Immunology
Enhancing a cancer patient’s own T cells to reduce tumor growth is an up-and-coming cancer therapy that is being u
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 08, 2016
Microbiology
Humans have a symbiotic relationship with microorganisms, many of which reside in our gastrointestinal tract, and they c
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 30, 2016
Videos
Some vaccines can prevent diseases but what they are really meant to do is provoke an immune response in the body. That
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 27, 2016
Immunology
Scientists from Stanford University accidentally discovered a new cancer treatment, and it’s got all of the anti-c
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 12, 2016
Cancer
A drug that’s currently under testing in people has been found to kill melanoma cells, even the treatment-resistan
...
SEP 07, 2016
Cancer
When treating cancer, doctors have turned to immunotherapy to help target actual tumors instead of attacking all rapidly
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
AUG 29, 2016
Microbiology
The relationship between parasites and cancer is not new; researchers have known for many years about parasites that can
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 24, 2016
Immunology
Image Credit: iStockphoto Preschool children with a peanut allergy were able to start eating peanuts after taking part i
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
AUG 14, 2016
Immunology
Image Credit: Guilhem Vellut/Flickr The microenvironment that supports a cancerous tumor also starves the immune cells t
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
AUG 06, 2016
Cancer
In an effort to nip lymphomas before it becomes lethal to patients, scientists at the University of Geneva have develope
...
AUG 01, 2016
Immunology
A new treatment for the selective targeting of ovarian cancer cells has been adopted from chimeric antigen receptor (CAR
...
Written By:
Kara Marker