Creating cancer therapies based around natural killer cells could offer similar levels of efficacy to CAR-T therapies, but at around one hundredth of the cost. Researchers at MD Anderson Cancer ...

So instead, Rezvani decided to add the CAR gene to natural killer (NK) cells. “These cells are part of the innate immune system, and they’re very good at recognizing and killing cancer cells ...

Certain subsets of immune NK cells were altered in the blood of people with ALS, and could serve as therapeutic targets, a ...

Although NK cells have natural antibody-binding molecules such as CD16, their ability to hold onto antibodies long-term is ...

Among other functions, the NK cells (natural killers, a type of lymphocyte forming part of the immune system) have the capacity to detect and eliminate cancer cells. But in some cases they cannot ...