Immunotherapy News and Research

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Malaria research advances immunotherapy in lupus, HIV

A new study published on November 19, 2019, in the journal Cell Reports, shows how the body’s immune system responds to malaria, which in turn promises to teach scientists how to design more effective therapies for a range of illnesses that are modulated by the immune response.

19 Nov 2019

Improving the efficiency of antiangiogenic and antifibrotic drug for treatment of lung cancer

The University of Barcelona and Hospital Clínic de Barcelona collaborate with Boehringer Ingelheim Inc. to improve the efficiency of nintedanib, an antiangiogenic and antifibrotic drug, for the treatment of lung cancer.

19 Nov 2019

MIT researchers develop method to isolate T cells primed for certain allergies or infections

When your immune system is exposed to a vaccine, an allergen, or an infectious microbe, subsets of T cells that can recognize a foreign intruder leap into action.

19 Nov 2019

Researchers discover new pathway to 'reprogram' killer cells

Killer cells of the immune system detect and kill infected cells or cancer cells. Researchers at the Institute of Pathology at the University of Bern have now discovered that the mechanism by which certain immune cells kill their target cells can also be used to control the killer cells themselves.

19 Nov 2019

Rutgers Cancer Institute researchers awarded $2.3 million in American Cancer Society grants

More than $2.3 million in Research Scholar Grants from the American Cancer Society have been awarded to three Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey researchers to examine cell metabolism and tumor formation in forms of breast cancer, lung cancer and leukemia.

19 Nov 2019

Researchers identify new mechanism to resist fungal infection in cells

Indiana University researchers have identified a mechanism involving the body's ability to resist fungal infection. The work could help advance research on cancer therapies that use the body's own immune system to fight disease.

18 Nov 2019

Yale study uncovers why belly fat surrounding organs increases as people age

A study by researchers at Yale has uncovered why belly fat surrounding organs increases as people age, a finding that could offer new treatment possibilities for improving metabolic health, thereby reducing the likelihood for diseases like diabetes and atherosclerosis that stem from inflammation.

15 Nov 2019

Research explains why immunotherapy fails against prostate cancer bone metastases

Prostate cancer that spreads to the bone triggers the destruction of bone tissue that, in turn, thwarts the effectiveness of immune checkpoint inhibitors by blocking the development of T cells that are crucial to successful treatment, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report in Cell.

14 Nov 2019

New treatment stops peanut allergy for 6 weeks with single dose

A small study published in the journal JCI Insight on November 14, 2019, suggests that antibody treatment could help people with severe allergy to peanuts eat a small amount of peanut-containing food just two weeks later, without any ill effects. This seems to show that this is a safe, fast and effective treatment for food allergy.

14 Nov 2019

Inhaled nanoparticles can help treat lung cancer

Scientists have reported a new approach to treating lung cancer with inhaled nanoparticles developed at Wake Forest School of Medicine, part of Wake Forest Baptist Health.

14 Nov 2019

Promising method to identify aggressive breast cancers that will respond to immunotherapy

University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have discovered a promising method to identify aggressive breast cancer tumors that will respond to drugs that unleash the immune system against cancer.

14 Nov 2019

Blocking metastasis-promoting enzyme can prevent spread of breast cancer

In a breakthrough with important implications for the future of immunotherapy for breast cancer, UC San Francisco scientists have found that blocking the activity of a single enzyme can prevent a common type of breast cancer from spreading to distant organs.

14 Nov 2019

Melanoma rates decline sharply among adolescents and young adults, shows research

Cases of melanoma among U.S. adolescents and young adults declined markedly from 2006 to 2015 - even as the skin cancer's incidence continued to increase among older adults and the general population during the span, new research shows.

13 Nov 2019

Johns Hopkins launches new center for 'immunoengineering' research

If the saying that two heads are better than one is true, then joining two fields of science may be better than one to spur more advances in medicine.

13 Nov 2019

Scientists find driver for more deadly prostate cancer

A transcription factor that aids neuron function also appears to enable a cell conversion in the prostate gland that can make an already recurrent cancer even more deadly, scientists say.

13 Nov 2019

Cardiac resynchronization therapy improves heart function in cancer survivors

A pacemaker-like device restored heart function in a group of cancer survivors -- mostly women with breast cancer -- who had suffered from heart failure as a result of chemotherapy treatment, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports.

12 Nov 2019

Fresh light on why aggressive breast tumors form and how they can be treated

New research presented at the Society for Endocrinology annual conference in Brighton appears to identify novel methods of therapy for an aggressive type of breast cancer as well as uncovering potential causative factors. The focus of the study is to show how common chemicals present in our surroundings are possibly putting women at risk of a type of breast cancer called triple negative breast cancer (TNBC).

12 Nov 2019

Rutgers researcher receives $600,000 grant to study chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey researcher Hossein Khiabanian, PhD, has received a $600,000 Translational Award from the V Foundation for Cancer Research to study chronic lymphocytic leukemia with the aim of developing research models that may help investigators better understand how CLL cells are influenced by new therapies.

11 Nov 2019

New textbook on mysterious and deadly cytokine storm syndrome

There's no telling where the call will come from, or when. But Randy Cron, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pediatrics and medicine at UAB, knows to expect them.

11 Nov 2019

Cancer patients with RA treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors likely to experience a flare

A new study found that cancer patients with a pre-existing autoimmune disease receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors as treatment are likely to experience a flare.

11 Nov 2019

Immunotherapy News and Research

Latest Immunotherapy News and Research

Malaria research advances immunotherapy in lupus, HIV

Improving the efficiency of antiangiogenic and antifibrotic drug for treatment of lung cancer

MIT researchers develop method to isolate T cells primed for certain allergies or infections

Researchers discover new pathway to 'reprogram' killer cells

Rutgers Cancer Institute researchers awarded $2.3 million in American Cancer Society grants

Researchers identify new mechanism to resist fungal infection in cells

Yale study uncovers why belly fat surrounding organs increases as people age

Research explains why immunotherapy fails against prostate cancer bone metastases

New treatment stops peanut allergy for 6 weeks with single dose

Inhaled nanoparticles can help treat lung cancer

Promising method to identify aggressive breast cancers that will respond to immunotherapy

Blocking metastasis-promoting enzyme can prevent spread of breast cancer

Melanoma rates decline sharply among adolescents and young adults, shows research

Johns Hopkins launches new center for 'immunoengineering' research

Scientists find driver for more deadly prostate cancer

Cardiac resynchronization therapy improves heart function in cancer survivors

Fresh light on why aggressive breast tumors form and how they can be treated

Rutgers researcher receives $600,000 grant to study chronic lymphocytic leukemia

New textbook on mysterious and deadly cytokine storm syndrome

Cancer patients with RA treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors likely to experience a flare

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Immunotherapy News and Research

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