Day: May 22, 2024

When medical devices such as pacemakers are implanted in the body, they usually provoke an immune response that leads to

Researchers have developed an approach to “deleting” a blood system affected by leukemia while simultaneously building up a new, healthy

Roughly one in five cancer patients benefits from immunotherapy — a treatment that harnesses the immune system to fight cancer.

A Cleveland Clinic-led team of scientists and physicians have discovered that the immune checkpoint protein VISTA can directly turn off

Researchers from the University of Toronto, Canada, and Kyushu University, Japan, have found that increased neuron formation and the subsequent

The brain is often referred to as a “black box” — one that’s difficult to peer inside and determine what’s

A novel therapy that reprograms immune cells to promote antitumor activity helped shrink hard-to-treat prostate and bladder cancers in mice,

Periodontal disease, represented by periodontitis, is the leading cause of tooth loss and affects close to one in five adults

What is the largest ligament in the human body? It might surprise some people that it is the Achilles tendon.

Scientists have used breast cancer cells’ weakness against themselves by linking a tumour-selective antibody with a cell-killing drug to destroy