Lewis Lanier ’75 was an undergraduate at Virginia Tech when he took the virology class with Robert C. Bates that would change his career path.

Natural killer cells, also referred to as NK cells, play several major roles in the body's defense against cancers like renal cell carcinoma. Natural killer cells, also referred to as NK cells, play ...

Activated T cells that carry a certain marker protein on their surface are controlled by natural killer (NK) cells, another cell type of the immune system. In this way, the body presumably curbs ...

In 2010, a milestone was achieved when the first patient with cancer was treated with CAR-T-cell therapy. This pioneering treatment modifies a patient's T cells by inserting a gene for a chimeric ...

A year ago, Caribou Biotherapeutics’ CEO was telling Fierce Biotech that the company’s natural killer (NK) cell therapy program was the “tip of the spear” for its solid tumor strategy and didn't hint ...

Immune-evading CAR-NK cells maintained a population in mice long enough to eliminate cancer whilst avoiding cytokine release syndrome. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Medical ...

Of 7 subtypes identified 10,000 melanoma cells, C4 Melanoma COCO1A was the only to show indications of being more sensitive to natural killer (NK) and T cells. A certain type of melanoma may be more ...

Cell therapy first reached patients as treatments for cancer. Artiva Biotherapeutics is part of a growing group of companies working to bring cell therapy to autoimmune disease, and its IPO has raised ...