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Targeting NK cells could open the door to more effective immunotherapy in resistant tumors
Researchers at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology have uncovered that "natural killer" cells (NK), a type of immune ...
Lipid nanoparticles that engineer CAR T cells in vivo could unlock access for millions of autoimmune patients
Capstan Therapeutics scientists demonstrate that lipid nanoparticles can engineer CAR T cells within the body without ...
160-Million-Year-Old Blue-Stain Fungus Discovered in China
Jurassic-era blue-stain fungi fossils found in China push their origin back 80 million years. These fungi pierced wood using ...
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HIV-specific CD8+ T-cell responses soon after treatment initiation during acute HIV infection are associated with viral reservoir decline
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiated in the acute phase of HIV infection (AHI) results in a smaller viral reservoir. However, the impact of early HIV-specific T-cell responses on long-term reservoir ...
Blocking a key enzyme could rewire cancer cells and suppress tumor growth
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences ...
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Innate immune cells articles from across Nature Portfolio
Mitochondrial DNA oxidation propagates autoimmunity by enabling plasmacytoid dendritic cells to induce T FH differentiation Oxidized mitochondrial DNA can be released into cytoplasm activating the ...