In this interview, News-Medical talks to Dr. Shuang Zhou about cytokine-base cancer immunotherapy, the current state of the field, and future prospects. Cytokines are molecular messengers released by ...

Cancer immunotherapy has advanced significantly in recent years, dramatically improving patient prognosis and survival. The majority of cancer immunotherapy research currently focuses on the first T ...

Cytokines are small proteins that enable cells to communicate with each other, particularly to modulate the immune system—an increasingly popular target in drug development for immunology, virology, ...

A recent review examined natural killer–based therapies, a type of immunotherapy that holds promise for treating leukemia with less toxicity than currently available therapies. Although chemotherapy ...

Scientists rely on cytokines, growth factors, and other agents to direct and create different types of organoid models.

The job of your immune system is to protect your body from harmful foreign substances and keep you healthy. But sometimes your immune system does your body more harm than good. A cytokine storm occurs ...

CD4+ T cells, or helper T cells, are one type of lymphocyte that helps coordinate the immune response against infection and disease. They interact and activate other cells in the immune system. The ...

Systemic inflammatory cytokine profiling can predict the risk for kidney failure and long-term mortality in patients with ...

A collaborative research team has successfully developed designer enzymes that exhibit both intrinsic and extrinsic functions by transplanting a synthetic trinuclear zinc center into a human cytokine.