CAR-T cells, which are genetically programmed to specifically recognize and kill target cells, have altered the therapeutic ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that tumor cells use stress signals to subvert responding immune cells, exploiting them to actually boost ...

Our immune system is constantly monitoring our body. In order to survive, cancer cells need to evade this surveillance. Now a new study by researchers at the Netherlands Cancer Institute reveals a ...

Vaccines have had a major impact on the control of infectious disease, most recently by helping to combat the COVID-19 ...

Cancer plasticity allows tumor cells to change their identity, evade therapies, and adapt to environmental pressures, contributing to treatment resistance and metastasis. New research is targeting ...

A common feature of cancer cells is a genetic mistake called chromosomal instability. Entire chromosomes may end up outside the nucleus (blue) and spill DNA (green) into the cell’s cytoplasm. This ...

Immunotherapy is based on harnessing a person’s own immune system to attack cancer cells. However, patients with certain tumors do not respond to these therapies and it remains unclear why.

A new research study from scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, and elsewhere explains one of the mechanisms that ...

By Gina Kolata In a surprise discovery, researchers found that cells from some types of cancers escaped destruction by the immune system by hiding inside other cancer cells. The finding ...

Once the immune cells engulf the tumor, the toxin is released inside, becoming activated and creating pathways that allow tumor DNA and protein fragments, which are usually destroyed, to escape.