Scientists have discovered a previously unknown type of immune cell that develops in people who successfully fight off cancer. Unlike other killer T cells ... are already at work in the patient ...

In 2010, a milestone was achieved when the first patient with cancer was treated with CAR-T-cell therapy ... to add the CAR gene to natural killer (NK) cells. “These cells are part of the ...

Natural killer T cells (NKT cells) recognize glycolipid antigens presented by CD1d. These cells express an evolutionarily conserved, invariant T cell antigen receptor (TCR), but the forces that ...