The emergence of T-cell therapy has fundamentally reshaped the approach to preventing and treating viral infections in patients undergoing allogeneic haemopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT).
SAN DIEGO — Infections account for nearly half of all deaths not caused by disease relapse among patients with advanced blood cancers after treatment with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell ...
Clusters of T cells, that are part of our immune system protecting us against harmful pathogens, under a microscope. By studying them, Duke-NUS scientists have found that T cells can independently ...
Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and the Singapore General Hospital have discovered that T cells-white blood cells that can destroy harmful pathogens-can completely prevent viral infection, to ...
In individuals who started antiretroviral therapy during acute HIV infection, the proliferative capacity of HIV-specific CD8+ T-cells at 24 weeks of therapy predicted the subsequent reduction in the ...
Even when immune memory cells form in the lung after influenza infection, insufficient dietary iron leaves them less able to mount a strong antiviral response, revealing how nutrition can shape ...
The immune system works to maintain homeostasis throughout the body. Various cell types and immune mechanisms work in concert to fight disease. Specifically, two waves of immunity orchestrate a robust ...