Both the clinical effects and the unpleasant side effects of chemotherapies, from hair loss to mouth sores to ...

Both the clinical effects and the unpleasant side effects of chemotherapies, from hair loss to mouth sores to gastrointestinal discomfort, stem from their indiscriminate destruction of cells prone to ...

Ulcerative colitis has long been framed as a disease of overactive immunity, a condition in which the immune system attacks ...

Immunotherapy, which uses a patient's immune system to treat disease, has increased survival for some adults and children ...

If biology did have a motto, it may well be ‘nothing is ever as simple as it seems,’ an idea which is exemplified by today’s scientific story. It comes to us from the Prlic Lab in the Vaccine and ...

T-cell large granular lymphocytic (T-LGL) leukemia affects white blood cells called lymphocytes, which are part of the body’s immune system. The “T” means the leukemia starts in T cells. In someone ...

The ability of immune cells-particularly CD8 + T cells-to launch a rapid burst of proliferation inside tumors is key to the success of modern day cancer immunotherapies. However, the factors and ...

A recently published article highlights the use of CD4-positive/CD8-positive double-positive T cells as a predictive marker for graft-versus-host disease. In a recent ...

A review found that CD4/CD8 ratio could be used as a prognostic marker for mortality in patients with HIV, though future studies need to be done to confirm these findings. Clinical practices can ...