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

According to the results of the early study, published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine, 92% of patients ...

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

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 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.

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Older adults with cancer respond just as well as younger patients to immune checkpoint inhibitors despite age-related immune system differences, according to a new study.

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