Artistic rendering of a human dendritic cell. (Don Bliss & Sriram Subramaniam/National Cancer Institute) While it's also ...

A new study has found that creatine can provide a crucial energy boost to key immune cells, allowing them to effectively ...

EPFL researchers have successfully engineered cells of the immune system to more effectively recognize cancer cells. The work, covered in two papers, turns the previously lab-based method into a ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified the immune cell that acts as the architect and ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified the immune cell that acts as the architect and coordinator of powerful immune hubs that form inside tumors and plays a key ...

The immune system must be able to quickly attack invaders like viruses, while also ignoring harmless stimuli, or allergies can result. Immune cells are known to ignore or "tolerate" molecules found on ...

A new study has revealed that a special group of cells in the intestines tamp down the immune responses caused by exposure to food proteins. Called 'tolerogenic dendritic cells,' these cells enable ...

Dendritic cell sarcomas are rare neoplasms arising from antigen-presenting dendritic cells, most commonly the follicular subtype located within lymphoid germinal centres. They exhibit a broad ...

The immune system consists of inflammatory and regulatory T cells (Tregs) that promote or dampen immune activity, respectively. These cells react to specific antigens that specialized cells like ...

Creatine is generally considered safe when taken at recommended doses, but its effects can vary depending on a person's ...

Cancer immunotherapy transforms a patient’s immune cells into a “search‑and‑destroy” force against tumors. But many cancers learn to camouflage themselves from dendritic cells—the immune system’s ...