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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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AUG 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 MarkerJUL 19, 2016Cancer
A decade-old technology to arm the immune system to fight cancer is now being adapted to fight HIV, one of the most pern ...JUL 18, 2016Immunology
For the first time in a human tumor, scientists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania h ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUL 06, 2016Videos
Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are a recently described family of lymphoid effector cells with important roles in immunolo ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUL 01, 2016Videos
While the news about immunotherapy drugs and the almost miraculous results Jimmy Carter had using Keytruda is mostly pos ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 27, 2016Immunology
T cells are the body’s natural fleet of cancer-attacking lymphocytes, but in recent years scientists have found a ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 24, 2016Cancer
The UK has just approved new pair of anticancer drugs for the treatment of one of the most aggressive and deadly forms o ...JUN 23, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
The US government panel that evaluates gene therapy trials, the National Institute of Health’s Recombinant DNA Res ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 15, 2016Immunology
When you think about how cancer cells continue to develop ways grow and spread despite both the body’s and medicin ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 08, 2016Immunology
There’s a protein that signals the immune system not to kill certain cells. This action could be preventing autoim ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 07, 2016Immunology
There’s a newfound hope in immunotherapies for cancer, and it’s a drug called nivolumab. On the market under ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 02, 2016Immunology
The human immune system works around the clock to fight pathogens and protect the body from disease. T cells play an ess ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAY 30, 2016Cancer
A group of immune-related genes could predict survival for patients battling with a brain cancer type known as glioblast ...MAY 27, 2016Videos
Most people have heard of the drug Keytruda, used most notably by former President Jimmy Carter for his advanced melanom ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAY 21, 2016Cancer
For the first time in 30 years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new drug for the treatment of the most ...MAY 12, 2016Immunology
Cancer cells are mutated cells that grow abnormally. Cytotoxic T cells of the immune system are designed and developed t ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAY 11, 2016Immunology
Normally cancerous cells do their best to hide from the immune system, but researchers from the National University of S ...Written By: Kara MarkerAPR 30, 2016Cancer
Researchers recently reported that immunotherapy led to remission in 93 percent of patients with advanced leukemia. Thou ...APR 21, 2016Videos
While he is mostly known for his digital exploits, having founded the music service Napster and served as President of F ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 20, 2016Cancer
Immunotherapy, the technique of using the immune system to fight off disease, is one of the most promising avenues for a ...
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
JUL 19, 2016
Cancer
A decade-old technology to arm the immune system to fight cancer is now being adapted to fight HIV, one of the most pern
...
JUL 18, 2016
Immunology
For the first time in a human tumor, scientists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania h
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 06, 2016
Videos
Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are a recently described family of lymphoid effector cells with important roles in immunolo
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 01, 2016
Videos
While the news about immunotherapy drugs and the almost miraculous results Jimmy Carter had using Keytruda is mostly pos
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 27, 2016
Immunology
T cells are the body’s natural fleet of cancer-attacking lymphocytes, but in recent years scientists have found a
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 24, 2016
Cancer
The UK has just approved new pair of anticancer drugs for the treatment of one of the most aggressive and deadly forms o
...
JUN 23, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
The US government panel that evaluates gene therapy trials, the National Institute of Health’s Recombinant DNA Res
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 15, 2016
Immunology
When you think about how cancer cells continue to develop ways grow and spread despite both the body’s and medicin
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 08, 2016
Immunology
There’s a protein that signals the immune system not to kill certain cells. This action could be preventing autoim
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 07, 2016
Immunology
There’s a newfound hope in immunotherapies for cancer, and it’s a drug called nivolumab. On the market under
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 02, 2016
Immunology
The human immune system works around the clock to fight pathogens and protect the body from disease. T cells play an ess
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 30, 2016
Cancer
A group of immune-related genes could predict survival for patients battling with a brain cancer type known as glioblast
...
MAY 27, 2016
Videos
Most people have heard of the drug Keytruda, used most notably by former President Jimmy Carter for his advanced melanom
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 21, 2016
Cancer
For the first time in 30 years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new drug for the treatment of the most
...
MAY 12, 2016
Immunology
Cancer cells are mutated cells that grow abnormally. Cytotoxic T cells of the immune system are designed and developed t
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 11, 2016
Immunology
Normally cancerous cells do their best to hide from the immune system, but researchers from the National University of S
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 30, 2016
Cancer
Researchers recently reported that immunotherapy led to remission in 93 percent of patients with advanced leukemia. Thou
...
APR 21, 2016
Videos
While he is mostly known for his digital exploits, having founded the music service Napster and served as President of F
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 20, 2016
Cancer
Immunotherapy, the technique of using the immune system to fight off disease, is one of the most promising avenues for a
...