1 Department of Pharmacy, The Affiliated Yixing Hospital of Jiangsu University, Yixing, China 2 Department of pharmacy, Jiangsu Province Hospital, Nanjing, China Immunotherapy has become a global ...
Each type of cell has a unique role, and knowing what all the cells do can help scientists better understand health and diseases such as cancer. Scientists focused on certain organs — plotting the ...
The study, published today in Nature, discovered that at least 3% of normal cells from breast tissue in 49 healthy women contain a gain or loss of chromosomes, a condition known as aneuploidy, and ...
Scientists published more than three dozen papers as part of the Human Cell Atlas, an effort to map the human body cell by cell. The human body contains around 36 trillion to 37 trillion cells ...
It also gives ideas for engineering new immune-cell-based therapies in the laboratory for fighting diseases such as a cancer. Another example of the Human Cell Atlas in action came during the ...
Steve Gschmeissner / Science Photo Library via Getty Images Fat cells have a “memory” of obesity, which may help explain why it’s so difficult to maintain weight loss, according to a new ...
In the study, RNA was found to "trigger the development of a unique type of immune cell with anti-cancer properties," according to a press release from the Northwestern Medicine Canning Thoracic ...
The researchers caution that these remain purely speculative for now. Yet one daring idea would be to apply the concept of habituation to the relationship between cancer and immunity. Tumors are ...