Cells have sophisticated methods of sensing stimuli and communicating with nearby cells in response to these stimuli. For example, macrophages can sense environmental stimuli—tissue damage, foreign ...

Scientists in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and MIT have created a new family of tools that, for the first time, illuminates the missing half of how the immune system uses ...

The customizable platform used AAVs to deliver genetic cargo that induced the production of three anti-inflammatory cytokines ...

Cytokines are small proteins naturally occurring in the body that can help mediate the immune response to cancer. Researchers have investigated the use of cytokines in cancer therapy, leveraging the ...

October 28, 2022, CLEVELAND: Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute was awarded a five-year $12 million grant by the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, to ...

A new technology that analyzes gene expression in cells reveals new insights into immune cell activity. This new single-cell ...

Cytokines and their kin, alternatively called interleukins, growth factors, interferons, necrosis factors, and others, are soluble messengers responsible for communication between nearby cells, ...

People often get immunotherapy as a treatment for cancer. These immunotherapy treatments can be effective, but they may cause your immune system to have an unnatural response. Your body, as a result ...

Cytokines are small proteins that serve as the fundamental chemical messengers of the immune system. They also play a key cell signaling role in stem cell biology, relaying messages that direct stem ...

New research shows Finnish sauna sessions rapidly mobilize immune cells, revealing heat stress effects on cytokines and ...