Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have developed a new type of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell that ...
Erythropoietin, the protein that drives red blood cell formation, also induces tolerance in dendritic cells, leading to the development of regulatory T cells.
A breakthrough therapy is driving aggressive leukaemia into remission. Here’s what the headlines don’t tell you about life after treatment.
A single signaling pathway controls whether immune cells attack or befriend cells they encounter while patrolling our bodies, ...
Measuring the lymphocytes-white blood cells that fight infection-in a patient’s blood can be used to predict outcomes in ...
Fondazione Telethon ETS' Waskyra has become the first gene therapy in the US for patients with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) ...
Ocular immunology investigates the complex interplay between molecular mediators and immune cells responsible for maintaining ocular immune privilege, as ...
Gene therapy uses the patient's own blood stem cells, which were genetically modified to include functional copies of the WAS gene, the FDA said.
A seventh person has been ‘cured’ of the HIV through a stem cell transplant. But the treatment can only be used for people with fatal cancers as it is very risky to be attempted in people without ...
NEW YORK – A gene therapy using lentiviral particles to generate CAR T cells inside multiple myeloma patients has shown the ability to eliminate the small number of cancer cells in the bone marrow ...
The immunotherapies used to treat melanoma now include well-established drugs such as Keytruda (pembrolizumab) and Opdivo (nivolumab) and newer ones such as Amtagvi (lifileucel), which uses T cells ...
“In our real-world experience, [Yescarta] in relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma showed durable responses and a ...