Immune system scientists and computational biologists are developing a new tool to investigate how the body fights disease.

Our body's own defense system not only clears away bacteria and viruses, it can also fight cancer. However, not all tumor ...

The immune system is comprised of two separate active arms of immunity to provide robust protection against disease. The two separate systems of immunity i | Immunology ...

Seniors with cancer respond just as well as younger patients to immune checkpoint inhibitors -- drugs that take the brakes ...

Researchers have uncovered a unique ability of a special subtype of natural killer cells in the immune system, called adaptive NK cells, to remember ovarian tumors and effectively attack them. The ...

Mr. Zhou, a 63-year-old resident of Shanghai, returned to a hospital for what would become his third fight against diffuse ...

For some cancers, there are also treatments that harness the patient's immune system to fight cancer, called immunotherapies.

IO Biotech's first-in-class vaccine performs double duty, killing cancer cells and enhancing the tumor microenvironment. A ...

Cancer scientists say they have engineered a new type of super-strong antibody which could be used to boost the immune systems of patients fighting the disease.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have completed a first-in-human clinical trial testing a CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technique to help the immune system fight advanced gastrointestinal (GI) ...

Cancer scientists engineer a new type of antibody which could be used to boost the immune systems of patients fighting disease.