The immune system provides an integral defense against cancer growth and progression. Activating an anti-tumor immune response relies on several biological steps that can ultimately result in the ...

Protein aggregates are associated with the development of diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. These are found more ...

Cells are crowded, dynamic places where thousands of molecules interact in tight quarters. Until now, scientists lacked a ...

At the 2024 annual meeting of the International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy (ISCT) in Vancouver, Canada, Hélio Tomás, PhD, senior research associate at the Instituto de Biologia Experimental e ...

Emily Whitehead made the history books in 2012 when she become the first pediatric patient with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia to be given a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy. After ...

Digitized R&D workflows help cell therapy developers reduce manual data handling and accelerate biologics development.

A research team led by Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Hua Wang has published new research detailing a new mRNA cancer vaccine platform. The study introduces an immune cell homing ...

When injured, cells have well-regulated responses to promote healing. These include a long-studied self-destruction process that cleans up dead and damaged cells as well as a more recently identified ...

Your intestine completely rebuilds its inner lining every few days—one of the fastest renewal processes in the human body.