Metastatic carcinoma of the bronchus, inadvertently transferred to a patient when a kidney was transplanted from a cadaveric source, underwent immunologic rejection in the new host. This ...

American pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) has once again faced rejection on its $10 billion plan to settle thousands of ...

Based on early studies, it was hypothesized that expression of Fas ligand (FasL) by tumor cells enabled them to counterattack the immune system, and that transplant rejection could be prevented by ...

In a groundbreaking moment for cancer, Chinese researchers turned the immune response provoked by organ transplants to fight the leading cause of death worldwide. According to Columbia University’s ...

Researchers in China have used the body’s own immune system to kill cancerous cells in a pioneering new therapy.

Complex problems do not necessarily require complex solutions. [53,80] Indentifying the common downstream mechanisms that lead to the immune-mediated tissue destruction in different conditions may ...