Researchers are studying the potential of gold nanoparticles (yellow dots) to deliver drugs into the body. Veronika Sapozhnikova, Konstantin Sokolov, Rebecca Richards-Kortum/M.D. Anderson Cancer ...

A cancer drug class best known for attacking tumors may also help your immune system remember them better. Researchers at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center report that ...

A newly discovered cancer trick that weakens immunotherapy may be stopped by everyday statins.

Repatha works by blocking a specific enzyme in your liver to help your body remove cholesterol more effectively. It is not an immunosuppressant drug, so it doesn’t work by suppressing the immune ...

The new drug, known as VIR-5500, uses a so-called cloaking device and only activates when it reaches the tumour ...

UCLA scientists have developed a next-generation CAR-T cell therapy that can overcome the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment, a protective shield that tumors use to weaken immune cells, block ...

Our bodies are home to millions of fungi that, for the most part, are completely harmless. However, they can sometimes change ...

When the first cells appeared on Earth approximately 3.8 billion years ago, viruses were already here to greet them. Ever since, viruses have been devising ways to infect cells, and cells have been ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Tom Anchordoquy, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (THE CONVERSATION) ...