Case Western Reserve researchers use AI with routine CT scans to predict how well lung cancer patients will respond to expensive treatment based off changes in texture patterns inside and ou... Read more
An electronic nose that detects chemicals in the breath of lung cancer patients can identify with 85% accuracy those who will or will not respond to immunotherapy, according to new research... Read more
Successful T cell engineering with gene scissors The idea of genetically modifying a patient’s own immune cells and deploying them against infections and tumors has been around since the 198... Read more
Chemical compound extends survival by months, in mice Pancreatic cancer is especially challenging to treat – only eight percent of patients are still alive five years after diagnosis. Chemot... Read more
The glow could someday help us use cancer drugs more efficiently. Experimenting with mice, Johns Hopkins researchers report they have successfully used positron emission tomography (PET) sca... Read more
In part because of its resistance to many antibiotics, tuberculosis kills approximately 1.7 million people worldwide each year. But new research from the University of Notre Dame suggests th... Read more
Precision cancer drugs called PARP inhibitors have a previously unknown ability to boost the immune system, and could help many more patients benefit from immunotherapy, a new study reveals.... Read more
Wilmot Cancer Institute research team reports that combining a type of radiation therapy with immunotherapy not only cures pancreatic cancer in mice, but appears to reprogram the immune syst... Read more
The New CRISPR-Based System Will Open the Door to Next-Generation Targeted Immunotherapies Immunotherapy can cure some cancers that until fairly recently were considered fatal. In addition t... Read more
MUHC scientists part of international team that identifies a key molecule in immune system regulation linked to new genetic disease Following the 2018 Nobel Prize for Medicine, global attent... Read more
Single Direct-to-tumor Drug-delivery Device Offers Hope for Treating Triple-negative Breast Cancer Houston Methodist scientists have developed a nanodevice to deliver immunotherapy without s... Read more
A novel approach to immunotherapy developed by researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has led to the complete regression of breast cancer in a patient who was unresponsive to all... Read more
A new study by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists suggests it may be possible to prevent tumors from recurring and to eradicate metastatic growths by implanting a gel containing immunot... Read more
Rice lab’s injectable gel feeds steady dose of drugs to tumor cells An immunotherapy drug embedded in a slow-release hydrogel invented at Rice University in collaboration with the University... Read more
