Engineered fluorescent nanobodies that work inside living cells can label multiple proteins in different colors at once, ...

Potent drugs like chemotherapy can be life-saving, but often with life-threatening side effects. Notably, they can be ...

T cells are a major component to the immune system. They are responsible for identifying and targeting foreign material and ...

Cytotoxic T lymphocytes are the body's specialized "killer" cells, precisely eliminating infected or cancerous cells. Their action relies on a specialized exchange zone called the "immune synapse," ...

Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy—CAR T for short—has been a major advance in treating blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma. But the immunotherapy has struggled against solid tumors for two ...

Drug-delivering aptamers that can precisely target leukemia stem cells with enhanced potency have been developed. Delivering anticancer drugs with specificity and potency to cancer stem cells is an ...

Cytotoxic T lymphocytes are the body's specialized "killers", precisely eliminating infected or cancerous cells. Their action relies on a specialized exchange zone called the "immune synapse", where ...

Drug-carrying DNA aptamers can deliver a one-two punch to leukemia by precisely targeting the elusive cancer stem cells that seed cancer relapses, researchers report. The aptamers -- short ...

Researchers found that lowering MHC I can expose cancerous or foreign cells to CD4+ T cell attack, reshaping assumptions ...