The latest immunotherapy news and developments
How a nasty, brain-eating parasite could help us fight cancer
Hany Elsheikha, University of Nottingham. We’ve known since the turn of the 20th century that…
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Legions of nanorobots aim carcinogenic tumours with precision
Researchers from Polytechnique Montréal, Université de Montréal and McGill University have just achieved a spectacular…
Radiotherapy supercharges cancer-targeting viruses to treat deadly skin cancer
Combining radiotherapy with a virus that targets cancer cells kicks both treatments into overdrive to…
T-cells can be directed to treat a variety of ovarian cancers
With only incremental improvements in ovarian cancer survival over the last 40 years, there is…
Parasite proteins prompt immune system to fight off ovarian tumours in mice
Scientists identified the specific proteins secreted by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii that cause the immune…
Mice survive brain cancer tumours lacking key surface proteins
A new scientific study has characterised a checkpoint protein that allows certain brain tumour cells…
Researchers develop simple method to characterise immune cells in tumours
Despite recent achievements in the development of cancer immunotherapies, only a small group of patients…
Animal models of oncolytic virotherapy
Cancer treatment in people could be transformed thanks to a study published in The Journal of…
Strategies to mimic fasting during chemotherapy enhance anticancer T cell activity in mice
Fasting is known to increase positive outcomes during cancer treatment, and now two independent studies…
Immune-based therapy in mice shows promise against pancreatic cancer
While immune therapy has proven effective in treating certain types of cancer, especially lung cancer…