The targeted approach eliminated tumors in mice, with minimal side effects. MIT researchers have created…
Browsing: Immunotherapy
Immunotherapy is a form of medical treatment that enhances the body’s natural immune system to fight diseases, most notably cancer. It represents a significant shift from traditional treatments like chemotherapy and radiation, as it often leads to fewer side effects and can be more precisely targeted. There are several types of immunotherapies, including checkpoint inhibitors that help the immune system recognize and attack cancer cells, cancer vaccines that trigger the immune system to act against certain cancer-related antigens, and adoptive cell therapies where immune cells are taken from the patient, engineered to be more effective, and reintroduced into the body. This treatment is also being explored for its potential against autoimmune diseases, allergies, and infectious diseases like HIV. The success of immunotherapy has transformed oncology, offering hope for durable responses and even remissions in situations where other treatments have failed.
Symptoms resembling Parkinson’s disease are a cautionary finding in CAR-T cell treatment for multiple myeloma.…
Researchers decipher when and why immune cells fail to respond to immunotherapy, suggesting that T…
A virus from black-eyed peas may help stop cancer spread to lungs. Engineered to trigger…
Researchers find three immunotherapy drugs given together can eliminate pancreatic tumors in mice. Pancreatic cancer,…
A dual treatment targeting macrophages and Tregs enabled immunotherapy to shrink most lung tumors in…
Scientists found immune-activating structures near glioma tumors that could boost the brain’s cancer-fighting potential. Scientists…
By identifying the mechanism of toxicity induced by immunotherapies, scientists from UNIGE and from the…
Effective against blood cancers, natural killer cells also may be effective against solid tumors. An…
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have developed AstroPath, a powerful new diagnostic platform that uses astronomical…
First-of-its-kind study shows how engineered immune cells move faster to attack the tumor. A groundbreaking…
Scientists at University College London have identified a new immunotherapy to combat the hepatitis B…
Few people with peanut allergy tolerate peanut after stopping oral immunotherapy. Continuing with a modest…
Unlike cell-based cancer immunotherapies that manipulate immune cells outside of the body and transfer them…
Cancer immunotherapy drugs have had notable but limited success because in many cases, tumors develop…
MIT researchers have developed a synthetic gene circuit that triggers the body’s immune system to…
New research suggests a way to increase the staying power of CAR T cells, a…
Scientists from Yale University have identified a new way to boost immune response by metabolically…