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June 25, 2025

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One Shot to Stop HIV: MIT's Bold Vaccine Breakthrough

June 20, 2025 — Researchers from MIT and Scripps have unveiled a promising new HIV vaccine approach that generates a powerful immune response with just one dose. By combining two immune-boosting adjuvants alum and SMNP the vaccine lingers in lymph nodes for nearly ...

New Gene Editor Enables Greater Precision

May 16, 2025 — A new gene editor may soon open the door to gene therapies for a wider array of ...

Enzyme Identified as an Important Tumor Inhibitor in T-Cell Lymphomas

May 16, 2025 — Lymphomas belong to the group of malignant diseases of the immune system and mainly affect the organs of the lymphatic system. Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) belongs to the subgroup of non-Hodgkin's lymphomas and is a rare but aggressive form ...

People With Lupus Who Have Certain Antibodies Are More Likely to Experience Blood Clots, Researchers Find

May 15, 2025 — Some patients with lupus who possess specific antibodies are at a higher risk of thrombotic events such as a blood clot, stroke or heart attack, a new study shows. The finding might help clinicians ...

Enhanced CAR T Cell Therapy Offers New Strategy for Lymphoma

May 8, 2025 — A phase I study of a next-generation CAR T cell therapy showed a 52 percent complete remission rate for patients with relapsed/refractory ...

Scientists Develop Super Strong Antibodies for New Cancer Treatment

May 4, 2025 — Cancer scientists engineer a new type of antibody which could be used to boost the immune systems of patients fighting ...

Treatment Regimen for Aggressive Blood Cancer

May 4, 2025 — Study data reveal how a specific sequence of cancer therapies can improve outcomes for patients with hard-to-treat ...

New CAR-T Therapy Achieves Positive Results in a High Proportion of Patients With a Refractory Type of Lymphoma

May 1, 2025 — A Phase I trial involving ten patients with relapsed or refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma or T-cell lymphoma has achieved a 100% overall response rate and a 50% complete remission rate, in ...

Left or Right Arm? New Research Reveals Why Vaccination Site Matters for Immune Response

Apr. 29, 2025 — Scientists have uncovered why vaccines can elicit a stronger immune response if they are administered in the same ...

Empowering Antibodies to Better Activate the Immune System

Apr. 22, 2025 — Antibodies are best known for their ability to latch onto and neutralize bacteria, viruses and other pathogens. But these immune proteins can do more than that: They also activate other components of the immune system, which then go to work to clear ...

NK Cells Complexed With Bispecific Antibody Yield High Response Rates in Patients With Lymphoma

Apr. 4, 2025 — A novel cell therapy approach using cord blood-derived natural killer (NK) cells pre-complexed with AFM13, or acimtamig, a CD30/CD16A bispecific antibody, was safe and generated strong response rates ...

Lymph Node Transfer Reduces Arm Swelling After Breast Cancer Surgery

Mar. 19, 2025 — A study has shown that lymph node transfer is a viable treatment for the swelling in the affected limb, a condition known as lymphedema, after breast cancer surgery. However, an effective drug to improve the outcomes of the transfer treatment ...

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Engineering Antibodies With a Novel Fusion Protein

Mar. 25, 2025 — Even with significant expansion in the global market for antibodies used in clinical care and research, scientists recognize that there is still untapped potential for finding new antibodies. Many ...

Tattoos May Be Linked to an Increased Risk of Cancer

Mar. 4, 2025 — Research has shown that tattoo ink does not just remain where it is injected. Particles from the ink can migrate to the lymph nodes, where they ...

An Enzyme to Disarm Tumors

Feb. 16, 2025 — When a tumour develops, it creates a structure around itself called the tumour stroma, within which blood and lymphatic vessels ensure nutritional and respiratory biological exchanges. ...

New Blood-Clotting Disorder Identified

Feb. 14, 2025 — Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the field of hematology, providing an explanation for spontaneous and unusual blood-clotting that continues to occur despite treatment with ...

New Blood Test Identifies Hard-to-Detect Pancreatic Cancer With 85% Accuracy

Feb. 14, 2025 — A new blood test could help doctors detect pancreatic cancer earlier, potentially improving survival rates for one of the deadliest ...

A Chain Reaction: HIV Vaccines Can Lead to Antibodies Against Antibodies

Jan. 23, 2025 — Many vaccines work by introducing a protein to the body that resembles part of a virus. Ideally, the immune system will produce long-lasting antibodies recognizing that specific virus, thereby ...

Immunotherapy Against Cancer: How Therapeutic Antibodies Do Their Job

Jan. 11, 2025 — A look at cancer cells: Thanks to an innovative method of super-resolution microscopy, researchers observed with molecular resolution in 3D how therapeutic antibodies attack and alter B cells, ...

Anticancer Drugs Could Make Immunotherapies More Effective

Dec. 9, 2024 — An emerging class of anticancer drugs called EZH2 inhibitors may greatly enhance the potency of some cancer ...

Scientists Discover New Receptor for Nerve Growth Factor--a Promising Target for Treating Pain

Dec. 5, 2024 — Researchers have found a new receptor for nerve growth factor that plays an important role in pain signaling, even though it does not signal on its ...

Key Influenza-Severity Risk Factor Found Hiding in Plain Sight on Our Antibodies

Nov. 13, 2024 — Why do some people develop severe flu symptoms? A study points the finger at an unsung portion of the antibodies our immune systems generate to fend ...

Study Finds Traditional Open Surgery for Lymph Node Removal Remains Gold Standard for Testicular Cancer

Oct. 31, 2024 — With the goals of informing surgical management, improving long-term outcomes and lowering death rates of patients with testicular cancer, a study has found that the conventional, versatile open ...

Immunotherapy Blocks Scarring, Improves Heart Function in Mice With Heart Failure

Oct. 23, 2024 — Researchers have reduced scar formation and improved heart function in mouse models of heart failure using a monoclonal antibody treatment, similar to that approved by the FDA to treat other ...

Immunotherapy Boosts Survival of Advanced Hodgkin Lymphoma

Oct. 17, 2024 — Researchers discovered they could boost survival to 92% for patients with advanced Hodgkin lymphoma by adding the immunotherapy nivolumab to a current treatment regimen. This is compared to 83% ...

Researchers Identify Antibodies Against Klebsiella Pneumoniae

Sep. 26, 2024 — Research has identified 29 novel antibodies against the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae, an important cause of drug-resistant infections. Using genetic and functional approaches, the researchers ...

A Two-Dose Schedule Could Make HIV Vaccines More Effective

Sep. 20, 2024 — Researchers have shown that they can generate a strong immune response against HIV with two doses of a vaccine given one week ...

Monoclonal Antibodies Offer Hope for Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance

Sep. 16, 2024 — Monoclonal antibodies -- treatments developed by cloning a cell that makes an antibody -- could help provide an answer to the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance, say ...

T Helper Cells May Be the Key to Improving Annual Influenza Vaccines

Aug. 20, 2024 — Scientists have discovered why the flu vaccine can perform poorly. They found that a specific type of immune cell, called T follicular helper cells, indirectly controls the anti-influenza response. ...

Bacteria Encode Hidden Genes Outside Their Genome--Do We?

Aug. 9, 2024 — A 'loopy' discovery in bacteria is raising fundamental questions about the makeup of our own genome -- and revealing a potential wellspring of material for new genetic ...

B Cell Biohack: Immune Cells to Churn out Custom Antibodies

July 22, 2024 — Scientists have discovered a way to turn the body's B cells into tiny surveillance machines and antibody factories that can pump out specially designed antibodies to destroy cancer cells or HIV, ...

Knockout of CD5 on CAR T Cells Boosts Anti-Tumor Efficacy

July 22, 2024 — The effectiveness of CAR T cell therapy against a variety of cancers, including solid tumors, could be boosted greatly by using CRISPR-Cas9 technology to knock out the gene for CD5, a protein found ...

A New Method for Improving Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy for Cancer

June 20, 2024 — Research scientists found that a 'one-two punch' of combining the immunosuppressive drug ruxolitinib with existing checkpoint inhibitor therapies may be a more effective way to fight some ...

Could Auto-Antibodies Be Linked to Severe COVID-19?

June 19, 2024 — Recently, scientists found that some people who suffered from COVID-19 had auto-antibodies targeting their own type 1 interferons, which are important immune signaling proteins. Now, researchers ...

Boosting CAR-T Cell Therapies from Under the Skin

June 12, 2024 — CAR-T cell therapies are transforming the treatment of previously incurable blood cancers, but a large proportion of patients still responds only poorly or not at all to them, calling for new ...

'Artificial Lymph Node' Used to Treat Cancer in Mice

June 6, 2024 — Scientists say they have developed an artificial lymph node with the potential to treat cancer, according to a new study in mice and human ...

Researchers Take Step Toward Development of Universal COVID-19 Antibodies

May 30, 2024 — A new human monoclonal antibody moves a step closer to a universal antibody cocktail that works against all strains of ...

Repeat COVID-19 Vaccinations Elicit Antibodies That Neutralize Variants, Other Viruses

May 17, 2024 — A study has found that repeat vaccination with updated versions of the COVID-19 vaccine promotes the development of antibodies that neutralize a wide range of variants of the virus that causes ...

Expanding a Lymph Node, Boosting a Vaccine

May 6, 2024 — Researchers have found a way to enhance and extend LN expansion, and study how this phenomenon affects both the immune system and efficacy of vaccinations against tumors. While the oversized LNs ...

Workings of Working Memory Detailed

Apr. 17, 2024 — Investigators have discovered how brain cells responsible for working memory -- the type required to remember a phone number long enough to dial it -- coordinate intentional focus and short-term ...

Less Extensive Breast Cancer Surgery Results in Fewer Swollen Arms

Apr. 4, 2024 — It is possible to leave most of the lymph nodes in the armpit, even if one or two of them have metastases larger than two millimeters. This is shown in a trial enrolling women from five countries. ...

Investigators Develop Novel Treatment for T-Cell Leukemias and Lymphomas

Apr. 2, 2024 — A novel treatment for leukemias and lymphomas that arise from immune system T cells was found to be effective at killing these cancers in mice bearing human T-cell ...