Federal funding is enabling biomedical engineer Jamie Spangler and her team to develop innovative treatments for autoimmune ...

Researchers at The Wistar Institute's HIV Cure and Viral Diseases Center have successfully identified a new approach using ...

These tiny terminators, called natural killer (NK) cells, are one of the body’s strongest defences against illness and disease — and yet the hundreds of billions of NK cells in our own bodies ...

Aside from the CD19 targeting component, Rezvani’s NK cells express a component to extend their persistence in the body and “suicide switch” should things go awry. Results from an early ...

When blood cancer cells break through the bone and multiply, tumor cells become dangerously diverse and the immune response ...

Your body has five different types of white blood ... blood clots, stomach acids, natural killer cells, and mast cells. Your acquired or adaptive immunity is more developed over time as you ...

The Southampton scientists found that a peptide - short chains of amino acids - derived from the XPO1 protein attracted the natural killer cells. This, they say, triggers the body's immune ...

a subset of NK cells bearing the activating Ly49H receptor, which specifically binds the viral glycoprotein m157, can proliferate 100-1000 fold in lymphoid and non-lymphoid organs following mouse ...