Advances in our understanding of autoimmunity and tumour immunity have led to improvements in immunotherapy for these diseases. Ironically, effective tumour immunity requires the induction of the ...

Luckily, reinforcements are on the horizon in the form of specialized treatments that use your own body to strike back-- cancer immunotherapy. If an antibody scans an antigen and determines it to ...

Immunotherapy is a kind of cancer treatment that uses your body's own immune system to find and kill cancer cells. Your immune system is great at fighting infections from outside invaders, like ...

The Allison Institute: immunotherapy for all Immunotherapy owes its successes to decades of basic scientific research. Back in the 1990s, scientists were trying to understand how T cells become ...

Then his doctors gave him pembrolizumab (Keytruda), a new immunotherapy medication that could spur a patient’s own immune system to attack cancer. Within several months the tumors had melted away.

As technical hurdles are overcome, these innovative treatments are poised to revolutionize cancer immunotherapy. Studying the basics of natural killer (NK) cells, where they come from, and how ...