Genetically engineered CAR T cells expressing artificial receptor proteins are increasingly used in the clinic to boost the ...

T Cells: Tireless Soldiers Feeling the Heat Our immune system has a particularly fearsome weapon in its fight against cancer: ...

A landmark study due to start in the coming months aims to test a method for rejuvenating our immune system in older age. The ...

T cells are an elite fighting force of the immune system, seeking out and destroying diseased cells. But in a prolonged ...

Researchers have discovered a way to make the immune system's T cells significantly more effective at fighting cancer. By blocking a protein called Ant2, they were able to reprogram how these cells ...

"Peacemaker" immune cells could help treat diseases ranging from type 1 diabetes to neurodegeneration by restoring immune ...

T cells are specialized immune cells designed to identify and eliminate disease. In the context of chronic inflammatory ...

As scientists gain a deeper understanding of how the body’s immune system remembers pathogens it must fight, the paradigm for ...

(Juan Gartner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) The human immune system has evolved an incredible ability to fight off ...

A new stem-cell-inspired technique allows scientists to grow vast numbers of immune-cell progenitors that can be engineered ...

The thymus generates a diverse pool of T cells; these cells are essential to the immune response that helps fight infections. T cells are trained in the thymus to recognize foreign invaders as harmful ...

You might think of cancer as a mass of rogue cells that grow uncontrollably. But cancer is more organized and strategic than that. Rather, cancer is a tightly controlled cellular neighborhood that can ...