Cytokines contribute to the antitumor response through several key pathways and interactions with different immune cells. These include the following: (a) Natural killer (NK) cells: Cytokines such as ...

Cells have sophisticated methods of sensing stimuli and communicating with nearby cells in response to these stimuli. For example, macrophages can sense environmental stimuli—tissue damage, foreign ...

Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute was awarded a five-year $12 million grant by the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, to define how cytokines - proteins ...

Cancer immunotherapy has advanced significantly in recent years, dramatically improving patient prognosis and survival. The majority of cancer immunotherapy research currently focuses on the first T ...

Scientists in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and MIT have created a new family of tools that, for the first time, illuminates the missing half of how the immune system uses ...

Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine Department of Microbiology and Immunology have made an important new discovery about how a particular molecule could improve lung function for ...

The job of your immune system is to protect your body from harmful foreign substances and keep you healthy. But sometimes your immune system does your body more harm than good. A cytokine storm occurs ...

Cytokines and their kin, alternatively called interleukins, growth factors, interferons, necrosis factors, and others, are soluble messengers responsible for communication between nearby cells, ...

People often get immunotherapy as a treatment for cancer. These immunotherapy treatments can be effective, but they may cause your immune system to have an unnatural response. Your body, as a result ...

Scientists at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed a new cytokine-armored CAR-T cell therapy ...