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Modulation of immune cells
Immune cells can be modulated by various therapeutic strategies aimed at improving the immune response against a cancer, infection, or disease. Examples of therapies which modulate immune cells include monoclonal antibodies, cytokines, and vaccines.
NOV 01, 2018 | 12:00 AM
Integrated protocols and live-cell analysis solutions for different 3D tumor modelsIn the search for greater clinical translation, cancer researchers are increasingly turning to more comp...
NOV 01, 2018 | 12:00 AM
Alongside intense efforts to exploit T-cells as immunotherapies for cancer (e.g. checkpoint inhibitors, CAR-T, T-cell metabolism), researchers are increasingly considering other immune cell t...
NOV 01, 2018 | 12:00 AM
The success of immune checkpoint blockade adds a new therapeutic category to the cancer therapy repertoire. Despite efforts made on cancer cell and immune cell interaction, how cancer cells i...
SEP 20, 2018 | 9:00 AM
DATE: September 20 2018TIME: 09:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT Harnessing the immune system has emerged as a powerful therapeutic strategy in oncology. However, the limited...
SEP 18, 2018 | 5:00 AM
To ensure the immune system’s balance between the recognition of non-self and the prevention of autoimmunity, the activity of immune cells needs to be strictly controlled. During the pr...
MAR 29, 2018 | 12:00 PM
It has only been in the last 20 years that we, the scientific/medical community, have appreciated the role of the endogenous Cannabinoid system (ECS) in maintaining a healthy immune system an...
MAR 21, 2018 | 8:00 AM
DATE: March 21, 2018TIME: 8:00AM PST, 11:00AM ESTMass cytometry, or cytometry by time-of-flight (the basis of the CyTOF® system), enables quantification of the abundance and fu...
FEB 21, 2018 | 6:00 AM
We recently reported that HDAC6 is involved in the regulation of a number of immunosuppressive checkpoint proteins, including the Program Death Receptor Ligand 1 (PD-L1). This protein is one...
NOV 15, 2017 | 10:00 AM
DATE: November 15, 2017TIME: 10:00AM PTInteractions between tumor and immune cells in the tumor microenvironment (TME) play a key role in tumor progression and treatment response, with...
OCT 11, 2017 | 6:00 AM
There has been a great deal of renewed attention in immuno-oncology over the last decade. Therapies for cancer are being developed, approved, and administered that can either initiate,...
SEP 14, 2017 | 9:00 AM
The human large intestine houses trillions of microorganisms which collectively form the highly diverse microbial community known as the gut microbiota. The gut microbiota performs many funct...
SEP 07, 2017 | 9:00 AM
DATE: September 7, 2017TIME: 9:00AM PT, 12:00PM ETThe success of immune checkpoint blockade adds a new therapeutic category to the cancer therapy repertoire. Despite efforts made on can...
