Team harvests cancer-killing exosomes
Building on the promise of emerging therapies to deploy the body’s “natural killer” immune cells…
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Acute exercise has beneficial effects on the immune system during prostate cancer
New research published this week in Experimental Physiology found that in prostate cancer survivors, a moderate bout…
Breast cancer cells can reprogram immune cells to assist in metastasis
Natural killer (NK) cells, a type of immune cell, are known to limit metastasis by…
Breast cancer cells turn killer immune cells into allies
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA, have discovered that breast cancer cells…
A new pathway to ‘reprogram’ killer cells
The so-called natural killer (NK) cells are cells of the innate immune system that recognise…
Natural killer cells may open lifesaving cancer treatments to more patients
Immunotherapy is making headlines for saving the lives of hundreds of cancer patients including former…
Genetically enhanced, cord-blood derived immune cells strike B-cell cancers
Immune cells with a general knack for recognising and killing many types of infected or…
‘Buying time’ for natural killer cells could enhance cancer immunity
A team of researchers from Australia and France have uncovered new insights into how to…
New immunotherapy for leukaemia shows promise in small clinical trial
A new type of immunotherapy shows promise against cases of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) that…