Scientists have identified a hidden barrier that prevents immunotherapy from working against a rare liver cancer. Immunotherapy, which activates the body’s own immune system to kill cancer cells, has ...

A lung cancer trial bolsters a long-held idea that treatment timing matters, showing a simple shift could help immunotherapy ...

According to the results of the early study, published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine, 92% of patients who received only an immune-based treatment to help their own immune ...

In a new study, researchers have uncovered how exercise might help the immune system fight cancer: by changing the gut microbiome in a way that boosts production of a compound called formate. This ...

A protein made by stressed cancer cells helps lung and pancreatic tumors evade the immune system, a new study shows. Led by ...

The findings were published in the journal Cell. The research was led by Leonie Uhl, Amel Aziba, and Sinah Löbbert, working with colleagues from the University of Würzburg (JMU), Massachusetts ...

Scientists in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and MIT have created a new family of tools that, for the ...

Researchers recently tried an experiment: Gather people who had the same kind of lung cancer and put them on the same type of treatments to fire up their immune systems. The only difference was that ...

Justin Stebbing does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Following on from their breakthrough human trial that successfully reprogrammed the immune system to overpower glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor, the same scientists have now further developed ...

Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, defending you from thousands of pathogens that cause disease while sparing your body's own healthy cells. This careful equilibrium is ...

“Many confounding factors in real life—including lifestyle, UV exposure, occupational hazards, and immune status—can ...