by University College London Graphic illustration of new cancer therapy, “minimally invasive image-guided ablation”, developed by scientists at UCL. Credit: Mark Lythgoe (UCL) Scientists at UCL have developed a novel cancer therapy that uses an MRI scanner to guide a magnetic seed through the brain to heat and destroy tumors. The therapy, demonstrated in mice,...
by Steven Schultz, Princeton University In this artist’s rendering, a component of the human immune system known as a T cell, in the lower left position, attacks a cancer cell, upper right. Credit: Lim Lab One of the most promising new cancer therapies involves engineering cells from the body’s own immune system to attack tumors, but...
by Harvard University Macrophages are immune cells that patrol the body looking for potential threats like viruses, bacteria, and cancer cells, and engulf and destroy them. However, cancerous tumors have a nasty trick up their sleeves: they secrete substances that “switch” arriving macrophages from their tumor-killing state to a tumor-promoting state, in which they suppress...
Jonathan L. Linehan & Lélia Delamarre Immune cells called CD8 (or cytotoxic) T cells can target and kill cancer cells, and immunotherapies that boost this process are in clinical use. However, for reasons that are not fully clear, it is hard to predict whether a person will respond to this treatment. Writing in Nature, Alspach...
